Geography
The global and the intimate: home cultures, belonging and personal life
Module code: 008GS
Level 6
30 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Workshop
Assessment modes: Essay, Coursework
The meaning of home is often taken-for-granted as a mundane and trivial feature of everyday life, but in this module you'll explore its complexity in full.
Workshops focus on domestic practices of home in terms of:
- consumption
- display and identification
- the inhabitation of the embodied and sensuous home space
- family
- heteronormativity and gendered practices of home (un)making
- the lifecourse and home as a site of childhood and ageing
- the politics of housing and home, including displacement, domicide and homelessness
- migration, belonging and transnational home-making.
Your studies of the representation of home in literature and film will be complemented by a trip to the Geffrye Museum of Home.
Module learning outcomes
- Evaluate and explain key concepts.
- Reflect critically on key geographical and interdisciplinary debates on home.
- Provide evidence of detailed knowledge and understanding of a diversity in experiences of home.
- Identify, explore, and critically discuss appropriate empirical evidence in response to essay titles.