Overview

In the practice of constructing the idea of home and the emotions surrounding it, sensory experiences and materiality intertwine to form layers of memory and affective atmospheres. People in different life stages and situations create continuity and a sense of home by engaging with materiality and objects in their own unique way. Reconstructing Homes takes on a multidisciplinary approach of sensory ethnography, visual methods and autoethnography methodologies to explore affective engagements with materiality in the context of home and the idea of belonging.

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Author:   Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto ,  Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas ,  Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro ,  Anna Kajander
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805395737

ISBN 10:   1805395734
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Exploring Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of Home Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas, Anna Kajander & Helmut De Nardi *This chapter is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from University of Jyväskylä. Part I: Autobiographical Materiality Chapter 1. Bridging Homes in Space and Time: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Affective Materiality across Generations Maja Povrzanović Frykman Chapter 2. Objects as Catalysts: How Absent Objects Connect Memory, Family History, and Transnational Mobility Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas Chapter 3. Home, A Place Not to Feel Tomás Errazuriz Part II: Continuity through Materiality Chapter 4. Material Memories of Lost Karelia: Affective Reminders of Ancestral Villages in the Finnish Second World War Evacuee Families’ Homes Oula Seitsonen Chapter 5. Erased Landscapes and Reconstructed Cultures: The Effect of Materiality on Identity-rebuilding Processes of Karelian people Maarit Sireni Chapter 6. Adopted Heritage and the Rightness of Things: The “Uncanny” in the Creation of Home and Belonging Anna Kurpiel and Katarzyna Maniak Part III: Engagements with Affective Materiality Chapter 7. Constructing Affective Atmospheres at Home: Materiality and Meaningful objects of Kink Johanna Pohtinen Chapter 8. Craft Making at Home: Affective Practices of Coping with the Covid-19 Pandemic Anna Rauhala Chapter 9. Longing and Belonging: Exploring the Affective Role of Materiality in an International Adoption Case Giovanna Bacchiddu Part IV: Essays: Material Traces and Future Visions Chapter 10. Everything You Own or Have Ever Owned Gabe Moshenska Chapter 11. Fair Futures Robert Willim Conclusion Helmut De Nardi

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“I enjoyed reading this book. It has a nice balance between the ethnography of everyday life and theoretical discussions.” • Orvar Löfgren, University of Lund

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Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto is a Senior Researcher in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

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