The Right to Home: Exploring How Space, Culture, and Identity Intersect with Disparities

Author:   Tasoulla Hadjiyanni
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
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9781349959457


Pages:   332
Publication Date:   06 September 2019
Format:   Hardback
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The Right to Home: Exploring How Space, Culture, and Identity Intersect with Disparities


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This book explores how the design characteristics of homes can support or suppress individuals’ attempts to create meaning in their lives, which in turn, impacts well-being and delineates the production of health, income, and educational disparities within homes and communities. According to the author, the physical realities of living space—such as how kitchen layouts restrict cooking and the size of social areas limits gatherings with friends, or how dining tables can shape aspirations—have a salient connection to the beliefs, culture, and happiness of the individuals in the space. The book’s purpose is to examine the human capacity to create meaning and to rally home mediators (scholars, educators, design practitioners, policy makes, and advocates) to work toward Culturally Enriched Communities in which everyone can thrive. The volume includes stories from Hmong, Somali, Mexican, Ojibwe, and African American individuals living in Minnesota to show how space intersects with race, gender, citizenship, ability, religion, and ethnicity, positing that social inequalities are partially spatially constructed and are, therefore, malleable.

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Author:   Tasoulla Hadjiyanni
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9781349959457


ISBN 10:   1349959456
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   06 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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"Preface.Chapter 1: Introduction – Oikophilia.Chapter 2: The ""and"".Chapter 3: Hmong Stories - ""Only in the house do your dead ancestors live"".Chapter 4: Somali Stories - ""I hope God will not isolate me from my community"".Chapter 5: Mexican Stories - ""I can talk to her and she listens"".Chapter 6: Ojibwe Stories - ""When the traditions are lost, it is like a person who has no identity"".Chapter 7: African American Stories - ""To be self-sufficient and responsible in society"".Chapter 8: Moving Forward.Appendix 1.Index."

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Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, PhD, is Professor of Interior Design at the University of Minnesota. Her book The Making of a Refugee – Children Adopting Refugee Identity in Cyprus (Praeger, 2002) centered her scholarship on design as a medium for creating Culturally Enriched Communities, healthy and connected communities in which everyone can thrive.

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