Domestic Geographies Flashcards
Meanings of home (3)
Basic human need (debated)
Expression of value, culture, and identity
Economic investment
How are homes idealized?
Idealized through warmth, privacy, and safety
How do real world meanings of home differ?
Real world meanings contract idealized such as a place of work, violence, conflict, or oppression
How can a home be a place of consumption?
Households are said to be places of cultural, material, and social units actively consuming objects and meanings
4 Stages of integrating an object
- Appropriated
- Incorporated
- Objectified
- Converted
What are the role of objects in the home?
Represents the holders identity
Influence the space in the home
Influence the relationship of the home
What occurs I the appropriated stage?
Item is taken into possession, introduced to household, and are given a function or a role
What occurs I the incorporated stage?
New rules are placed around the object, new ways in relating to the object through patterns, and the item is given a place in the household
What occurs I the objectified stage?
Objects are signified with value, aesthetics, and meanings. Its manner of use and display becomes of conversation and opinion.
What occurs I the converted stage?
Object has a relationship to the household and world and the impact of the object has external implications.
Cultural signifier
Social capital
2 gendered notions places
Kitchen is for the woman
The home is the mens castle
How was domestic geographies different pre-industrial times?
Little work and life separation
Everyone shared spaces in the home
How was the post industrial household different?
Single-income households
Home and work seperation
How was women’s housework devalued?
Ideology of gender
Unpaid
Hidden
What does house work signify?
Cleanliness of home is judged
Civilized and moral
