To be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern World

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2018

To be at Home

House, Work, and Self in the Modern World

Edited by: James Williams and Felicitas Hentschke

Volume 5 in the series Work in Global and Historical Perspective

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110582765

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Houses and homes are dynamic spaces within which people work to organize and secure their lives, livelihoods and relationships. Written by a team of renowned historians and anthropologists, and and accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at Home: House,Work, and Self in the Modern World compares the ways people in different societies and historical periods strive to make and keep houses and homes under conditions of change, upheaval, displacement, impoverishment and violence. These conditions speak to the challenges of life in our modern world. The contributors of this volume position the home as a new nodal point between work, the self and the world to explore people’s creativity, agency and labour. Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts – if also often elusive – invoking places, persons, objects, emotions, values, attachments and fantasies. This book demonstrates how the relations between houses, work and the self have transformed dramatically and unpredictably under conditions of capitalism and modernity – and continue to change today.

Showcases pioneering scholarship undertaken at the International Research Center "Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History"

Author / Editor information

Felicitas Hentschke, Humboldt University

James Williams, Zayed University

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Introduction Felicitas Hentschke and James Williams Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Section 1: Homes and Mobility: Borders, Boundaries, Thresholds
Shoes Painfully Small: Material and Maternal (Dis)comfort in Cape Verdean Remittance Houses Heike Drotbohm Publicly Available Download PDF	10
Hostel, Home, and ‘Life-Rhythm’ for African Workers behind the Berlin Wall Eric Allina Publicly Available Download PDF	19
Kinship and Displacement in Post-War Liberia: Children’s Lives in an IDP Camp James Williams Publicly Available Download PDF	23
Making Home in the Industrialized Russian Arctic Alla Bolotova Publicly Available Download PDF	29
Section 2: Houses, Work, and Everyday Life: Rhythms, Ruptures, Cycles
Constructing Middle-Class Milieus in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Labor of Geselligkeit David Warren Sabean Publicly Available Download PDF	36
Home-Making among the Kel Ewey Tuareg in the Sahara Gerd Spittler Publicly Available Download PDF	45
Living in Homes, but What Kinds and Whose? Single Young People in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe Josef Ehmer Publicly Available Download PDF	49
Experiences of Wagelessness and the Meaning of Wage Work in the Free State Goldfields, South Africa Thabang Sefalafala Publicly Available Download PDF	56
Spinning Yarn: The Changing Place of Girls’ Work in Chinese and European History Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner Publicly Available Download PDF	62
Section 3: Construction, Demolition, Relocation
Subaltern Urbanism, or Dwelling and the Unhoused: Histories of Housing in the United States and India Anupama Rao Publicly Available Download PDF	70
Evicted in Dar es Salaam: From Tanganyika Packers to Uptown Kawe Thaddeus Sunseri Publicly Available Download PDF	80
The Changing Faces of a Village: Italian Migrant Workers’ Families in Lorraine Felicitas Hentschke Publicly Available Download PDF	85
Remaking Homes and Reproducing Inequalities in an Eastern Indian Steel Town Christian Strümpell Publicly Available Download PDF	90
Closed Constructions: The Apartheid Architecture of Migrant Hostels in Gauteng Anne-Katrin Bicher Publicly Available Download PDF	95
Section 4: The Power of Place: Space, Exclusions, Vulnerability
The Naqab/Nagev, Israel: Rebuilding Demolished Homes Gadi Algazi Publicly Available Download PDF	102
Public-Private Continuities and Alternate Domesticities: Welfare ‘Homes’ in India Renu Addlakha Publicly Available Download PDF	110
Land as a Site for Creating a Home: A Cautionary Tale from Botswana Anne Griffiths Publicly Available Download PDF	115
Homes and Colonial Violence in the Dutch East Indies: The Coolie Pondok Vincent Houben Publicly Available Download PDF	120
The Home and the World: Slavery and Domestic Labor in a Nineteenth-Century East African Caravan Town Stephen J. Rockel Publicly Available Download PDF	125
Section 5: Houses and Selves: Nostalgia, Imagination, Memory
A Woman and a Nation: A Story of Work and Home in China Ju Li Publicly Available Download PDF	134
A House for a Missing Self: Nostalgia for Slavery and Its Times in Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro Sidney Chalhoub Publicly Available Download PDF	143
From Forecastle to Folk Club: The Homeless Seafarer Jonathan Hyslop Publicly Available Download PDF	148
The Home and the World in Indian Folksongs of Marriage and Migration Nitin Sinha Publicly Available Download PDF	154
Section 6: Networks, Neighborhoods, Communities
‘The Land of Boarding Houses’: Migrant Workers and Collective Dwellings in São Paulo, Brazil, 1945–1970 Paulo Fontes Publicly Available Download PDF	162
The Enlarged Parlor? Structures and Varieties of German Working-Class Housing around 1900 Jürgen Schmidt Publicly Available Download PDF	170
Legacies of Housing in Ahmedabad’s Industrial East: The Chawl and the Slum Rukmini Barua Publicly Available Download PDF	175
‘Refugees Welcome’: German Civil Society and the Day of Arrival of One Million Refugees Felicitas Hentschke Publicly Available Download PDF	181
Section 7: Being at Home in the World: Thinking with Houses and Homes
Making Home on the High Seas: Bulgarian Seafarers between Ship and Shore Milena Kremakova Publicly Available Download PDF	190
Owning a Home in Bamako: To Be at Home after Death Isaie Dougnon Publicly Available Download PDF	199
From Ancestral Tablets to Patriotic Portraits: Remembering Kinship in Rural Chinese Homes Charlotte Bruckermann Publicly Available Download PDF	204
Unhomely Afterlives: The Works and Lives of Rabindranath Tagore Cláudio Pinheiro Publicly Available Download PDF	210
Reflections I
Servant Testimonies and Anglo-Indian Homes in Nineteenth-Century India Nitin Varma Publicly Available Download PDF	216
Reflections II
On Homes, Work, and Personhood: An Interview with Prabhu Mohapatra Prabhu Mohapatra, Felicitas Hentschke and Nitin Varma Publicly Available Download PDF	226
On Photography and History: An Interview with Alf Lüdtke Alf Lüdtke, Felicitas Hentschke and James Williams Publicly Available Download PDF	234
Reflections III
Why Homes Still Matter: Thoughts on Mamphela Ramphele’s A Bed Called Home Laurent Fourchard Publicly Available Download PDF	242
Contributor Biographies Publicly Available Download PDF	253
Picture Credits Publicly Available Download PDF	257
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	259

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: scholars/students of global/(post)colonial, labour history, anthropology, women/gender/refugees studies, architecture
Pages
- Front matter: 22
- Main content: 279
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 70

eBook

Published: September 24, 2018
ISBN: 9783110582765

Hardcover

Published: October 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110579871