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Charting new research directions, this book constructs a series of
imperatives for linking culturally informed research around
household sustainability with policy and planning. The household,
or 'home', is a critical scale for understanding activities that
connect individual behaviours and societal attitudes. The focus on
the household in this collection provides a window into the sheer
diversity of homemaking and maintenance activities that entail
resource use. These practices have affective or emotive dimensions
as well as habitual aspects. Diversity, innovation and change at
the household scale is often missed in policy approaches which
assume that simplistic economic motivations drive demand and this
can in turn be 'managed' through regulation or market pricing. The
research challenge extends beyond describing existing unsustainable
economies driving resource intensive behaviour to consider
realistic options for transformations in cultural practices,
material relationships and, ultimately, the political economies
they sit within. Without change in these systems, government
initiatives to promote ecological modernisation run the risk of
simply green-washing the very economies of consumption that
currently drive unsustainable practices. Social and cultural change
at the household level is critical to promoting sustainability at a
range of wider scales.
Charting new research directions, this book constructs a series of
imperatives for linking culturally informed research around
household sustainability with policy and planning. The household,
or 'home', is a critical scale for understanding activities that
connect individual behaviours and societal attitudes. The focus on
the household in this collection provides a window into the sheer
diversity of homemaking and maintenance activities that entail
resource use. These practices have affective or emotive dimensions
as well as habitual aspects. Diversity, innovation and change at
the household scale is often missed in policy approaches which
assume that simplistic economic motivations drive demand and this
can in turn be 'managed' through regulation or market pricing. The
research challenge extends beyond describing existing unsustainable
economies driving resource intensive behaviour to consider
realistic options for transformations in cultural practices,
material relationships and, ultimately, the political economies
they sit within. Without change in these systems, government
initiatives to promote ecological modernisation run the risk of
simply green-washing the very economies of consumption that
currently drive unsustainable practices. Social and cultural change
at the household level is critical to promoting sustainability at a
range of wider scales.
Masculinities and Place bring together an impressive range of
high-profile and emerging researchers to consolidate and expand new
domains of interest in the geographies of men and masculinities. It
is structured around key and emerging themes within recently
completed and on-going research about the intersections between
men, masculinities and place. Building upon broader themes in
social and cultural geographies, cultural economy and urban/rural
studies, the collection is organised around the key themes of:
theorising masculinities and place; intersectionality; home;
family; domestic labour; work; and health and well-being.
Queering the Interior problematizes the familiar space of 'home'.
It deploys a queer lens to view domestic interiors and conventions
and uncovers some of the complexities of homemaking for queer
people.Each of the book's six sections focuses on a different room
or space inside the home. The journey starts with entryways, and
continues through kitchens, living spaces, bedrooms, bathrooms, and
finally, closets and studies. In each case up to three specialists
bring their disciplinary expertise and queer perspectives to bear.
The result is a fascinating collection of essays by scholars from
literary studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, history and
art history. The contributors use historical and sociological case
studies; spatial, art and literary analyses; interviews; and
experimental visual approaches to deliver fresh, detailed and
grounded perspectives on the home and its queer dimensions. A
highly creative approach to the analysis of domestic spaces,
Queering the Interior makes an important contribution to the fields
of gender studies, social and cultural history, cultural studies,
design, architecture, anthropology, sociology, and cultural
geography.
Queering the Interior problematizes the familiar space of 'home'.
It deploys a queer lens to view domestic interiors and conventions
and uncovers some of the complexities of homemaking for queer
people.Each of the book's six sections focuses on a different room
or space inside the home. The journey starts with entryways, and
continues through kitchens, living spaces, bedrooms, bathrooms, and
finally, closets and studies. In each case up to three specialists
bring their disciplinary expertise and queer perspectives to bear.
The result is a fascinating collection of essays by scholars from
literary studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, history and
art history. The contributors use historical and sociological case
studies; spatial, art and literary analyses; interviews; and
experimental visual approaches to deliver fresh, detailed and
grounded perspectives on the home and its queer dimensions. A
highly creative approach to the analysis of domestic spaces,
Queering the Interior makes an important contribution to the fields
of gender studies, social and cultural history, cultural studies,
design, architecture, anthropology, sociology, and cultural
geography.
Masculinities and Place bring together an impressive range of
high-profile and emerging researchers to consolidate and expand new
domains of interest in the geographies of men and masculinities. It
is structured around key and emerging themes within recently
completed and on-going research about the intersections between
men, masculinities and place. Building upon broader themes in
social and cultural geographies, cultural economy and urban/rural
studies, the collection is organised around the key themes of:
theorising masculinities and place; intersectionality; home;
family; domestic labour; work; and health and well-being.
This edited book engages with the rapidly emerging field of the
geographies of digital sexualities, that is, the interlinkages
between sexual lives, material and virtual geographies and digital
practices. Modern life is increasingly characterised by our
integrated engagement in digital/material landscapes activities and
our intimate life online can no longer be conceptualised as
discrete from 'real life.' Our digital lives are experienced as a
material embeddedness in the spaces of everyday life marking the
complex integration of real and digital geographies. Perhaps
nowhere is this clearer than in the ways that our social and sexual
practices such as dating or casual sex are bound up online and
online geographies and in many cases constitute specific
sexuality-based communities crossing the digital/material divide.
The aim of this collection is to explore the complexities of these
newly constituted and interwoven sexual and gender landscapes
through empirical, theoretical and conceptual engagements through
wide-ranging, innovative and original research in a new and quickly
moving field.
This edited book engages with the rapidly emerging field of the
geographies of digital sexualities, that is, the interlinkages
between sexual lives, material and virtual geographies and digital
practices. Modern life is increasingly characterised by our
integrated engagement in digital/material landscapes activities and
our intimate life online can no longer be conceptualised as
discrete from 'real life.' Our digital lives are experienced as a
material embeddedness in the spaces of everyday life marking the
complex integration of real and digital geographies. Perhaps
nowhere is this clearer than in the ways that our social and sexual
practices such as dating or casual sex are bound up online and
online geographies and in many cases constitute specific
sexuality-based communities crossing the digital/material divide.
The aim of this collection is to explore the complexities of these
newly constituted and interwoven sexual and gender landscapes
through empirical, theoretical and conceptual engagements through
wide-ranging, innovative and original research in a new and quickly
moving field.
This international edited collection contributes to knowledge about
the geographies of sexualities experienced and imagined in rural
spaces. The book draws attention to the heterogeneity of rural
contexts and the diversity of meanings about sexualities within and
across these spaces. The collection examines four key themes.
First, 'Intimacies and Institutions' focuses on how intimate
relationships are governed by societal, discursive and
institutional structures, and regulated by social, political and
legal frames of citizenship and belonging. The chapters present
historical and contemporary case studies of the constitution and
management of intimate sexual lives and relationships in rural and
non-metropolitan spaces. Second, 'Communities' explores how sexual
identities are socially-constructed and relationally-performed in
rural communities, scrutinizing the complex interplay of belonging
and alienation, inclusion and exclusion, for sexual subjects and
communities within rural spaces. Analyzing films, literature and
interviews, the chapters examine sexuality and community, and
"queer" notions of rural family and community. Third, 'Mobilities'
examines movement/migration at different scales. Cross-national
data provides insights into similarities and differences in rural
migration and homemaking for lesbians, gay men and same-sex
families. The chapters consider how movement, coming out and
memories of time and place inflect home, identity and belonging for
rural lesbians and gay men. Fourth, 'Production and Consumption'
investigates the commodification of rural sexualities. The chapters
interrogate the management of animal bodies and sexualities in
industrial agriculture for consumer pleasure and commercial ends;
how heterosexuality and sexual relations are transacted in mining
communities; and the global commodification of rural masculine
sexualities. This book is timely. It provides important new
insights about ruralities and sexualities, filling a gap in
theoretical and empirical understandings about how sexualities in
diverse rural spaces are given meaning. This collection begins the
processes of furthering discussion and knowledge about the
inherently dynamic and constantly changing nature of the rural and
the multiple, varied and complex sexual subjectivities lived
through corporeal experiences and virtual and imagined lives.
This international edited collection contributes to knowledge about
the geographies of sexualities experienced and imagined in rural
spaces. The book draws attention to the heterogeneity of rural
contexts and the diversity of meanings about sexualities within and
across these spaces. The collection examines four key themes.
First, 'Intimacies and Institutions' focuses on how intimate
relationships are governed by societal, discursive and
institutional structures, and regulated by social, political and
legal frames of citizenship and belonging. The chapters present
historical and contemporary case studies of the constitution and
management of intimate sexual lives and relationships in rural and
non-metropolitan spaces. Second, 'Communities' explores how sexual
identities are socially-constructed and relationally-performed in
rural communities, scrutinizing the complex interplay of belonging
and alienation, inclusion and exclusion, for sexual subjects and
communities within rural spaces. Analyzing films, literature and
interviews, the chapters examine sexuality and community, and
"queer" notions of rural family and community. Third, 'Mobilities'
examines movement/migration at different scales. Cross-national
data provides insights into similarities and differences in rural
migration and homemaking for lesbians, gay men and same-sex
families. The chapters consider how movement, coming out and
memories of time and place inflect home, identity and belonging for
rural lesbians and gay men. Fourth, 'Production and Consumption'
investigates the commodification of rural sexualities. The chapters
interrogate the management of animal bodies and sexualities in
industrial agriculture for consumer pleasure and commercial ends;
how heterosexuality and sexual relations are transacted in mining
communities; and the global commodification of rural masculine
sexualities. This book is timely. It provides important new
insights about ruralities and sexualities, filling a gap in
theoretical and empirical understandings about how sexualities in
diverse rural spaces are given meaning. This collection begins the
processes of furthering discussion and knowledge about the
inherently dynamic and constantly changing nature of the rural and
the multiple, varied and complex sexual subjectivities lived
through corporeal experiences and virtual and imagined lives.
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