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  • Jesse Connuck
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Abstract

Although home is most often studied in social and cultural geographies, it is also profoundly political. Both material and affective, everyday and eventful, ideas of home pervade the way that people see and act in the world. It is expressed through everything from the distribution of domestic labor to gentrification, nationalism, imperialism, and settler colonialism. As a result of its close connections with identity and belonging, the ways that home shapes inclusions and exclusions within households, across cities, throughout nations, and around the globe have vast repercussions for political processes in multiscalar and intersectional ways.

Abstract

Although home is most often studied in social and cultural geographies, it is also profoundly political. Both material and affective, everyday and eventful, ideas of home pervade the way that people see and act in the world. It is expressed through everything from the distribution of domestic labor to gentrification, nationalism, imperialism, and settler colonialism. As a result of its close connections with identity and belonging, the ways that home shapes inclusions and exclusions within households, across cities, throughout nations, and around the globe have vast repercussions for political processes in multiscalar and intersectional ways.

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