Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2017.1319596
H. Steiner, Kristin Veel
Abstract This article considers the motif of porosity and its opposite, impenetrability, in relation to the home or places where we feel at home. It discusses ambiguities in how the physical boundaries of the home—but also of the perceived human subject—are portrayed in the technology-pervaded world of the dystopian science fiction narrative Total Recall. Tracing the story from the 1966 novel by Philip K. Dick, through the 1990 film to the recent remake (2012), allows for a consideration of the changes in our understanding of how the boundaries between the home and its other are culturally conceived and what happens when the integrity of these boundaries are put into question. Despite their differences, we argue that all three narratives use the built structures of walls and the imagery of the container as a way of portraying the basic conflict of an outer world that tries to take possession of the protagonist’s inner life. Tracing narrative shifts, we suggest, can become a vehicle for understanding the ongoing negotiation of boundaries of the “self,” the human body, the home and even the city, and the implications these cultural negotiations have across the period from 1966 to 2012.
本文考虑了多孔性的母题及其反义词,不可穿透性,与家或我们感到家的地方有关。它讨论了在反乌托邦的科幻小说《全面回忆》(Total Recall)中,技术无处不在的世界如何描绘家的物理边界——以及感知到的人类主体——的模糊性。从1966年菲利普·k·迪克(Philip K. Dick)的小说,到1990年的电影,再到最近的翻拍(2012年),追溯这个故事,可以考虑我们对家庭与其他者之间的界限如何在文化上被理解的理解的变化,以及当这些界限的完整性受到质疑时会发生什么。尽管存在差异,但我们认为,这三种叙事都使用了墙壁的建筑结构和容器的意象,作为描绘外部世界试图占有主人公内心生活的基本冲突的一种方式。我们认为,追踪叙事的转变,可以成为理解“自我”、人体、家庭甚至城市的边界正在进行的谈判的工具,以及这些文化谈判在1966年至2012年期间所产生的影响。
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2017.1319531
Carsten Meiner
Abstract Carsten Meiner analyses a series of classic French films, from Truffaut to Haneke, and their uses of the home with respect to the relation between grandeur and individuality. Homes thus become problematizing mediators between individuals and national grandeur, and together the films form a historical series of quite consistent albeit surprising articulations of the metabolism of life in national grandeur. This focus on the home leads to reflections on the problems of the idea of “represented nationalism” in cinema.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2017.1322742
H. Steiner, Kristin Veel
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2016.1242328
Shuntaro Nozawa, Jo Lintonbon
Abstract The cultural production of Japanese suburban housing between 1910 and 1939 was informed by changing perceptions of family and self in relation to domestic space and the everyday. This article focuses on the Hankyu Corporation, an Osaka-based railway company that presented itself as a cultural authority for middle-class families in a wide range of enterprises, including the construction of suburban estates. By revisiting its publicity material, including a monthly magazine and housing catalogs, we demonstrate the complex process through which Hankyu narratively visualized and materialized an image of suburban life in its housing designs. We address the subjective nature of taste in influencing and shaping consumer choices around the spatial production of neighborhoods and the conduct of daily life in the suburbs.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2016.1256566
Andrew W. M. Smith
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2016.1242327
M. Shapiro
Abstract Roberto DaMatta famously argues that in the Brazilian cultural universe stable moral codes buttress familial hierarchy in the house, while situational negotiations underscore egalitarian utopias in the street. In this article, I revise this analytic construct, which a priori assumes that the person of the house and the “individual” of the street are mutually exclusive social categories. Rather than polarize house and street as distinct cultural domains diametrically opposed to one another, I demonstrate ethnographically that houses in the Brazilian state of Maranhão are conceptually continuous with the street to varying degrees. I argue that moral indebtedness in both these domains locally manifests through the emotional economies of respect (respeito), by which persons/individuals introduce measures of emotional proximity or distance into various types of material exchange relations. Both men and women ultimately channel these types of relations into the space of their family houses, which thus become hubs for the circulation of core social values.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2016.1258124
Lucie Galčanová, Barbora Vacková
Abstract The domestic home is usually theorized as negotiated and structured space-time and as an emotional attachment to people and places. However, the increasing number of people living on their own brings about the question of how home is experienced, embodied, and narrated by solo-living individuals, especially in terms of ordering and stability under the flexible and fluid nature of some other realms, such as paid work. Following the affordance approach in studies of home, our aim is to integrate research on practices, materialities, and narratives of domestic homes. Our main question concerns how home is perceived, experienced, and performed by childless solo-living people and how they understand the stability of their dwelling—one of the main characteristics of home in social theory. To broaden this “traditional” concept of home, we build upon the emphasis on stability with the notion of flow, as presented by Deleuze and Guattari, along with the concept of boundary work, to describe the processes of delineation between these two from the level of mundane “doings.” Through in-depth interviews conducted using the go-along technique, combined with walking through the dwellings and some of the neighborhoods, we explore the ambivalence of stability, permanence, and temporariness, and the interconnection between materialities and meanings. The appropriation of space and time enables solo-living people to dwell comfortably, while also materializing and stabilizing the sometimes unwanted state of singleness or living alone. In contrast, the unfinished nature of some homes indicates a provisional state of being, pointing out that the current situation is still not satisfactory, being more open to change; however, it might lead to permanent living in unpleasant or even un-homey homes.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2016.1256561
Farniyaz Zaker
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2016.1242326
Magdalena Buchczyk
Abstract Based on anthropological fieldwork within a museum collection, this article discusses the changing nature of the rural household in central Romania. Through a detailed examination of its interiors, it provides an understanding of local perspectives on traditional households. Tracing the historical process of undressing and remaking this space, the article highlights the shifting local attitudes toward domesticity and different sentiments toward the house voiced by source communities and museum professionals. It aims to illuminate the contrasting time-spaces in which rural households are embedded and to provide a context for rethinking this material in the museum setting.
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