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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"home-making"”.
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Making Better Lives - Home Making Among Homeless People in Paris
How do homeless people make homes on the street? Over two years of fieldwork in Paris, I observed the daily practices and routines of people who are sleeping rough. How do they earn money through begging? What factors do they consider when finding and making shelters? I followed people through …
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In Place: Visualising Migrant and Diasporic Home-making in Contemporary London
… spaces and intimate cityscapes can represent the home-making experience of migrants and diaspora members in London and the contemporary urban environments in general. When looking at existing representations of migration and diaspora, it is noticeable that many link these topics with homelessness …
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Finding home : making a place for the homeless in the urban landscape
Is homelessness a problem? What if you considered homelessness to be a state, rather than a problem, and provided for it accordingly in the urban landscape? As roads and water and sewer lines are one type of infrastructure, a diverse mix of dwelling types is another kind of infrastructure - the …
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Home making and identity: a psychology of personality processes in North East Scotland.
… the roles of identity and personality in the home making process. Well-known approaches to identity typically define context in social or temporalterms, largely neglecting the physical environment. Personalisation of the dwelling has been argued to function in self-definition and …
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Homes or houses? : strategies of home-making among some amaXhosa in the Western Cape
Bibliography: leaves 148-152.
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Home making in small-town America: Mexican and Latina/o diasporas and citizenship practices in the Midwest
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Interacting With Domestic Objects: How Men in India Create a Sense of Home Away from Home
… mobile men in India construct a sense of home through domestic objects and spatial practices within temporary living spaces. Drawing on insights from material culture, anthropology, sociology, architecture, gender study and migration theory, this study explores home-making as an ongoing …
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La vida alegre : Intimacy and Respect in the World of Prostitution in Managua
… respect and how their street life (calle) and home making (casa) roles merge and interact. The specific kind of morality that emerges in sex workers' and clients' manner of speaking indicates how the limits of morality are fluid, pointing to where the spheres of calle and casa meet, intermingle …
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The Labour of Home
… shared experiences, this research unpacks the home-making journeys of a small group of residents at Cissie Gool House in Woodstock, investigating their grapplings with citizenship, past pursuits of home, and the rebuilding and reimagining of space undertaken as they continue to transform a …
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What does home mean in displacement? A case study of refugee women in the South of England.
Home is a complex, multi-faceted concept, yet it is frequently thought of as a static concept synonymous with a place of origin. Such construction of home, however, creates tensions between analyses of displacement, on the one hand, and the experience and meaning of home in contexts of forced …
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Objects of home : a place for architecture in the making of street-homes
Objects of Home re-imagines a home without walls, without roofs without doors, scattered throughout Rome - connected by patterns of use and coincidence. Immersed in a city that is not so anonymous to those who know it, these settlements upturn the tropes of the family and the private realm as the …
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The Tunisian Diaspora in Britain: The London Case
… reminds us that contemporary migrants construct homes and identities through complex networks that cut across their homelands and host countries. The intersection between home, identity and networks is at the centre of the multidisciplinary field of migration. Addressing this in the case of …
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Patchwork
… father takes her to live with him in his marital home. Thrust into the hostile environment of her new home, Pumpkin finds herself trying to adjust to a different life. Caught between struggling to survive a new home, making new bonds, and experiencing life issues such as the death of a neighbour, …
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Depression in underachieving gifted high school students and effects of a brief intervention strategy
… many mothers were not working outside the home making results difficult to interpret. On the other hand, the lower fathers' income contributed significantly to explaining· variance in higher Hopelessness Scale scores. Females and lower pre-GPA were also significant factors in explaining …
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Relocation narratives 'Made in Italy': self and place in late-twentieth century travel writing
… in the pursuit of la dolce vita in the adopted homeland. Focusing on Frances Mayes’s popular Tuscan texts, Annie Hawes’s Ligurian trilogy, and Tim Parks’s memoirs set in Verona, the study addresses how their accommodation over a period of long-term foreign residency is represented in multipart …
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The Commonweal of Life: Aldo Leopold and Land Health
… an alluring, integrated understanding of human home-making in nature, still valuable today, one in which ecology, aesthetics, human needs, objective value, and right living all converged."
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Toronto's Housing Crisis: An Intersectional Politics of Housing and Settlement Services for Refugees
… particularly intersectionality and theories of home-making, to enrich current conceptualisations of housing access and inequality in Canada. I unpack barriers refugees face when accessing the private rental market in Toronto, to reveal the multilayered ways in which marginalized communities …
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Contextualizing street homelessness in New Zealand: A case study approach
Homelessness is commonly associated with large urban settings. For people who sleep on the streets it encompasses experiences of stigma, regulation and displacement, marginalization, violence, loneliness, and bodily decline. This thesis addresses the lack of research into the everyday practices of …
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The delivery of Primary Health Care in remote Australian communities: A Grounded Theory study of the perspective of nurses
… described personal satisfaction as a feeling of making a difference to the health and wellbeing of the community. However, the core issue participants faced was the inability to provide PHC. Four conditions that impacted on the core issue, were described as: understanding of the social world of …
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The importance of primary physical education in England : assessing the acceptability and feasibility of a non-linear approach for parents and teachers
… parents to support their child's PA and PE at home. A mixed-methods study design was used; 103 participants completed the questionnaire, and eight were interviewed. The results showed that parents viewed PE and PA positively and were receptive to play-based PE. However, they faced several …
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