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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"meaning of home"”.
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Exploring the meaning of home for six baby boomers.
… life. As a result, by 2035, almost a quarter of the UK population will be over 65. Current policy and practice in the UK is that people should, wherever possible, age at home, but there is no research into what home means to baby boomers. Therefore, this researcher asks two questions. Firstly, …
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Consumption and home ownership: the evolving meaning of home
… study investigates the purchase and consumption of a house. An interpretive methodology was used, which resulted in multiple indepth interviews with fourteen informants and ten months of participant observation with Appalachian Mountain Housing building two houses for needy consumers. Chapters …
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The meaning of home for aging women living alone in North Eastern Ontario
The experience and meaning of home for older, community dwelling women, was investigated. In the world of gerontology there is a paucity of knowledge about those in their eighth and ninth decade, and this becomes more pronounced among older women. With the older demographic expanding and resources …
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Home beyond the house: the meaning of home for people living in Yanxia village, Zhejiang Province, China
Under the guidance of a new policy released by China’s central authority in 2006, which calls for “Building a New Socialist Countryside,” newly planned settlements with rows of nearly identical houses have rapidly emerged in rural China. As a result, rural residents, who, for generations, have …
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A transnational poetics of place: identity, otherness and the meaning of home in the poetry of Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Bei Dao, Hannah Lowe and Sarah Howe
… examines the relationship between the experience of otherness, poetic expression and the writer’s negotiation of home in the work of contemporary poets of the Chinese diaspora through critical examination and creative practice. It aims to redraw current accounts of contemporary poetry from 1980s …
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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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Home: A Memoir
Home: A Memoir, a creative non-fiction thesis, is a memoir in the form of personal essays, each exploring some aspect of the meaning of home, how my sense of self has been formed by my relationship to home, and the inevitability of leaving home. Chapter I explores the nature of memory and of …
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Closet Space
… is an exhibition investigating what makes a home. Through the creation of six drawings and seven prints, I investigate the relationship between isolation and companionship. This body of work explores the concept that a home is not simply a physical structure made up of walls and doors. …
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The Dualities of Home: Hong Kong Citizens in a Mobile World
Hong Kong’s long-standing situation of escalating accommodation costs has been widely characterised as one of the most severe housing crises in the world. This is a study of how the Fuzhou members of one of Hong Kong’s long-term citizen populations from Fujian province experience home in its dual …
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Place attachment and perception of home under the impact of internal displacement in rural settlements of northern Cyprus
Home, which is accepted as a centre for human life, can hold diverse significance and bear various meanings for each person depending on a variety of issues, such as personal characteristics and experiences that have been collected throughout a lifetime. The bond between a person and a home and the …
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Constructions of home and nation in the literature of the Indian diaspora, with particular reference to selected works of Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry
This thesis is an attempt to grapple with the meaning of home and belonging, nation and identity, from the perspective of diaspora narratives. Recent theories of diaspora have produced profound epistemological shifts in the theoretical frameworks and modes of analysis informing intellectual and …
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Home As A Place Of Work
The focus of this dissertation is essentially theoretical, and to do with concepts, assumptions and dualisms relating to 'home'- and 'work'. These are seen as socially constructed concepts in a dialectical relationship with one another; to understand one it is necessary to understand the other. It …
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Young people, home and homelessness : a narrative exploration
This thesis explores the experiences of homeless young people with a particular focus on the process of making the journey out of homelessness. It consists of a literature review, a research paper and a critical appraisal. The literature review comprises a narrative approach exploring the meaning …
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Icon + expectation : exploring the evolution of the American single family home
To propose a new conceptualization of "home", it is necessary to explore the mechanisms that have created this revered icon. Since the industrial revolution, the commercial packaging of the home has continually reinforced its significance as a mass-produced object. From clothing to automobiles, …
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War on architecture : scenographic strategies in tracing post-war home in the former SFR Yugoslavia
… spaces in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following their destruction and abandonment in the wars of the 1990s. It establishes case studies and frameworks for examining sites according to the significance of ‘home’ - before, during and after acts of violence. The research …
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‘Little houses lovable’: The portrayal of houses and homes in selected novels by L.M. Montgomery
… places and especially houses were deeply meaningful. This study explores the portrayal of houses and homes in a selection of L.M. Montgomery’s novels: Anne of Green Gables (1908), Anne of Avonlea (1909), Anne of the Island (1915), Anne’s House of Dreams (1917), Emily of New Moon (1923), …
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Concepts of displacement and home: seeking asylum and becoming a refugee among the host community of Northern Ireland
… democracies. This thesis investigates the meaning of home and belonging from the perspective of refugees and asylum-seekers in Belfast. Individuals who seek asylum in a place of safety leave their homes and homelands for a variety of reasons. I focus on the experiential challenges faced by …
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Exploring Meanings of Identity, Selfhood, and Migration in the Lives of First- Generation Gujarati Asian Indian Americans: A Narrative Study
… immigration policy allowed for greater numbers of immigrants from India. This group of immigrants is poorly represented in the literature, and the present study is an attempt to address this paucity in research within cultural psychology. Central to the present research are questions of …
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'Existential migration': voluntary migrants' experiences of not being-at-home in the world
In this thesis I describe a process of migration that has not previously been formulated, or recognised. I conceptualise this process as ‘existential migration’. Unlike economic migration, simple wanderlust, exile, or variations of forced migration, ‘existential migration' is conceived as a chosen …
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