scholarly journals Extreme dwelling: Assembling domus horribilis

2021 ◽  
pp. 174165902110046
Author(s):  
Elaine Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Residential Life ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Alternative Set ◽  
Cultural Media

10 Rillington Place names the site of temporally extensive practices of murder (1943–1953), and offers an empirical entry point for critically advancing the conceptual innovations of relational approaches to the criminological study of ‘home’. In so doing, the paper, firstly, (re)conceptualises serial homicide as practice, more specifically as a mode of domestic labour which materialises in and is enacted through the relational dynamics of everyday residential life; and secondly, rejects the notion of ‘home’ and argues for the concept of dwelling to better capture the active, generative and fluid dynamics of domestic life. This subtle shift in conceptual approach acknowledges how domus horribilis is etched from, and woven through the topological entanglements of everyday and extreme practices, and moves us toward an alternative set of conceptual commitments in our research of domestic space. Drawing from a mixed portfolio of cultural media (including archival, epistolary, journalistic, photographic, filmic, architectural, museological and dramaturgical data), the paper takes forward Schatzki’s site ontology as an organising framework for practice-based analytics, and advances the critical insights of an embryonic criminology of the domestic.

scholarly journals What Is Religion in Africa? Relational Dynamics in an Entangled World

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 156-181
Author(s):  
Birgit Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Colonial Era

Abstract Addressing the implications of the introduction of the concept of religion to Africa in the colonial era, this essay approaches religion from a relational angle that takes into account the connections between Africa and Europe. Much can be learned about the complexity and power dynamics of these connections by studying religion not simply in but also from Africa. Referring to historical and current materials from my research in Ghana by way of example, my concern is to show how a focus on religion can serve as a productive entry point into the longstanding relational dynamics through which Africa and Europe are entangled. This is a necessary step in decolonizing scholarly knowledge production about religion in Africa, and in religious studies at large.

Fugitive Living: Social Mobility and Domestic Space in Julia Frankau’s The Heart of a Child

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Lisa C. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Unmarried Woman ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
New Models ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Slum Fiction

This chapter examines Julia Frankau’s The Heart of a Child (1908) a novel that documents a poor orphan’s social ascent. Despite the protagonist’s experience of a range of new models of domestic life – including model dwellings, a ‘home for working girls’, and an apartment (based on the Artillery Mansions in Victoria) – she remains circumscribed at each stage by her status as an unmarried woman. This novel’s satirical engagement with slum fiction reveals that all women’s lives are shaped by domestic insecurity – even if they are shaped differently.

scholarly journals Materializing Memory, Mood, and Agency: The Emotional Geographies of the Modern Kitchen

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Meah
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
The Uk

Drawing upon narrative and visual ethnographic data collected from households in the UK, this article explores the material and emotional geographies of the domestic kitchen. Acknowledging that emotions are dynamically related and co-constitutive of place, rather than presenting the kitchen as a simple backdrop against which domestic life is played out, the article illustrates how decisions regarding the design and layout of the kitchen and the consumption of material artefacts are central to the negotiation and doing of relationships and accomplishment of domestic life. Based on fieldwork in northern England, the article examines the affective potential of domestic space and its material culture, exploring how individuals are embodied in the fabric and layout of domestic space, and how memories may be materialized in their absence.

Forty years of IKEA kitchens and the rise of a neoliberal control of domestic space

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Ledin ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Life Itself

This article uses a social semiotic approach to look at the representations and designs of kitchens in the IKEA catalogue from 1975 until 2016. The authors find a shift from function to lifestyle of the order observed by scholars of advertising. But using Fairclough’s concepts of ‘technologization’ in Discourse and Social Change (1992) and Van Leeuwen’s New Writing (2006) concept, they are able to dig deeper to show that there are four stages of kitchen that become, they argue, more and more codified, with increasing prescription over the meaning of space and also regarding what takes place there. Such coding aligns with the ideas, values and identities of neoliberalism: ‘flexible’, ‘dynamic’, ‘creative’, ‘solutions’ and ‘self-management’. The authors show how the features of New Writing allow a suppression of actual causalities and context, and permit symbolic and indexical meanings to take over. Domestic life itself becomes technologized, coded and stripped down to a number of symbols and indexical meanings which assemble easily into the requirements of the neoliberal order.

Experiencing Community: Continuity and Transformation of Residential Life under the Inka Empire in Huarochirí (Lima, Peru)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Carla Hernández Garavito
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Residential Life ◽  
The People ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Community Continuity ◽  
Inka Empire ◽  
The Impact

Most archaeological research on the impact of Inka imperialism at the domestic level centers on the intrusion of Inka-style buildings into pre-Inka domestic settlements as transforming the experience of domestic life and actively hindering interhousehold interaction. Results from excavations in the site of Ampugasa in Huarochirí (Lurín valley, Lima, Peru) show that pre-Inka residential spaces (patio-groups) were replaced by enclosures with a single access to an internal patio for domestic activities. My analysis shows that pre-Inka houses were ritually closed, directly connected to the site's ritual core, and remained part of the everyday life experience of people in the settlement. I argue that Ampugasa's transformation corresponds to a pattern of Inka imperialism in Huarochirí that enshrined rather than erased the collective ritual practices through which the people of Huarochirí maintained a broad regional identity. I propose that the interplay between Inka transformation of domestic space in Ampugasa and the continuity of ritual and secular practices among the site's inhabitants shows a space of negotiation where Inka imperialism still relied heavily on local practices that fostered the continuity of collective identities.

Research on Mesh Generation Effecting Resistance Calculation

2011 ◽  
Vol 138-139 ◽  
pp. 886-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Deng ◽  
De Bo Huang ◽  
Guang Li Zhou ◽  
Hua Wei Sun ◽  
Liang Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Mesh Generation ◽  
Engineering Application ◽  
Model Tests ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Hydrodynamic Performance ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Alternative Set

In order to give consistent and agreeable results in resistance and other hydrodynamic performance with some of the viscous Computational Fluid Dynamics methods which appear to have difficulties when applied to hulls, the investigation of the influential factors like mesh generation which affect the calculation results are taken by the simulation of different cases in the present paper. Through calculation and analysis, specifically with the CFD code FLUENT, an alternative set of computation parameters of mesh generation for engineering application is suggested. The application of the suggestion to the hull researched in this paper result in better agreements with corresponding model tests.

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