scholarly journals Governing the domestic space of the traveller in the UK: ‘family’, ‘home’ and the struggle over Dale Farm

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-87
Author(s):  
Joe Turner
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Space ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The Uk

Plato’s Cave and the Image of the Family Home in John McGahern’s The Barracks

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-105
Author(s):  
John Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Space ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The Impact

This article argues that, in The Barracks, John McGahern’s literary production of the domestic familial space charts the fractures and partitions within that supposed unified space to reveal the anaemic passivity and alienating nausea that overcomes individuals within a prescriptive and totalising hegemony. It will discuss McGahern’s decision to withdraw his first novel from publication, and the reformation of the unpublished text into The Barracks. It expressly considers McGahern’s shifting of the spatial setting from the recognisable trope of the country kitchen to a Garda barracks and the impact this has on Elizabeth’s position within the family home, and therefore society. This article argues that the novel’s form addresses the dislocation of non-hegemonic or alternative family structures. McGahern’s staging of the narrative in the unfit and fractured domestic space of the barracks subverts traditional conceptions of ‘home’. This undermines the supposed impenetrable primacy of the family unit and highlights the bad faith and comely delusion of mid-century Ireland.

Introduction: Exploring Parent Abuse – Building Knowledge across Disciplines

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Hunter ◽  
Judy Nixon
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Parental Role ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Parent Abuse ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Academic Recognition ◽  
Extensive Body ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Site

There is an extensive body of literature on the ways in which the family home is often a site of conflict and discord rather than security and safety. Much of this work has focussed on the problem of domestic violence perpetrated by adults and how the state should respond to it (Home Office, 2009). Another form of family violence however, that of the abuse of parents (or those occupying a parental role) by their adolescent children, has not received such public (or academic) recognition (Hunteret al., 2010). In the UK, the issue of parent abuse remains one of the most unacknowledged and under-researched form of family violence.

scholarly journals Statistical Predictions of Electric Load Profiles in the UK Domestic Buildings

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-156
Author(s):  
A. M. Ihbal ◽  
H. S. Rajamani ◽  
R.A. Abd-Alhameed ◽  
M. K. Jalboub
Keyword(s):  
Hot Water ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Electric Load ◽  
Model Concept ◽  
Load Profile ◽  
Electricity Load ◽  
Data Elements ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Daily Load

This paper presents a method of generating realistic electricity load profile data for the UK domestic buildings. The domestic space features have been investigated excluding the heating and hot water systems. A questionnaire survey was conducted and the feedback were collected from a number of occupants at different intervals of times on daily bases in order to establish the probabilistic record of the estimated use of electrical appliances. The model concept of this study also considers the results of previous investigations such as that available in public reports and statistics as input data elements to predict the global domestic energy consumption. In addition, the daily load profile from individual dwelling to community can be predicted using this method. The result of the present method was compared to available published data and has shown reasonable agreement.

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.

scholarly journals Muddied living: making home with dog companions

2019 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Cudworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Companion Species ◽  
Home Space ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Empirical Material

Purpose Focusing on everyday lives and relationships within the household, the purpose of this paper is to suggest that the quality of “home” is altered by the presence of animal companions. Conceptions of home as a haven have been critiqued on grounds of the elision of power relations, yet home has also been understood as a place of resistance to, and refuge from, an exploitative and exclusionary public world. Acknowledging differentiated relations of power and understanding homemaking as a process, this paper investigates the playing out of species relations within home space. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on empirical material from a study of companion species in households and public spaces, deploying ethnographic material gained through extended observation and semi-structured and often mobile interviews with dog “owners” in urban and rural contexts in the UK. Findings Dogs transform domestic space through muddying human lives. This process is twofold. First, life in posthumanist households problematizes boundaries between humans and other creatures in terms of relationships, behaviour and use of space. Second, muddied living involves breaching and maintaining domestic order. Muddied living is characterised by tension, power and compromise. Homes are posthuman not just by including non-human animals, but through elements of dog agency in how home is made. Originality/value Little has been written of “home” within sociology, despite “home” capturing a range of social practice. Sociologists examining human–animal companion relations have not considered how relations play out in home space. This paper investigates home as a shared space of multispecies interaction, making the case for a posthuman sociology of home.

scholarly journals The visual representation of germs: a typology of popular germ depictions

2020 ◽  
pp. 147035721989605
Author(s):  
Catherine Stones ◽  
James Stark ◽  
Sophie Rutter ◽  
Colin Macduff
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Category ◽  
The Us ◽  
Varied Range ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Popular Texts

Germs have been visually represented in popular texts for over 100 years, yet little is understood about the dominant practices/concepts resident in such images. This article presents a new typology of popular germ representations from the UK consisting of three main types: Scientific, Carrier and Analogous. The first category pertains to the realm of the scientist, the second to domestic space and social norms, and the third primarily to the realm of the imagination. The study identifies a further 13 sub-types and discusses each in turn. The authors argue that a more varied range of germ images exist than the previous binary positioning of germ representations in the US would suggest. They account for the continued adoption of the Analogous Germ in relation to four key cultural forces and problematize the use of the Monster Germ and its alignment of ugliness and obesity with disease.

Racism, Immigration, and Policing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Bowling ◽  
Sophie Westenra
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Racial Origin ◽  
The Uk

This chapter explores the ways in which racism shapes immigration policing. Focusing on the developing roles of constables and immigration officers in immigration policing in the UK, it contributes to a wider investigation of the emergence of a ‘crimmigration control system’ arising from the convergence of criminal and immigration law. Drawing on Weber and Bowling’s (2004) ‘sites of enforcement’ model, the chapter examines the research evidence on the ways in which racism shapes immigration policing within domestic space, at the border, and extraterritorially. Immigration policing tends to invoke racial characteristics in ways that define ‘suspect communities’ and focus enforcement activities on specific people based on what is imputed to be their national, ethnic, or racial origin. This, we argue, leads to racialized restrictions on the enjoyment of fundamental rights—such as the freedom of movement—consistent with Richmond’s claim that a system of global apartheid is being created.

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