GEG6102 investigates geographies of home on scales ranging from the domestic to the global. It begins by tracing the celebration of home by humanistic geographers as a site of authentic meaning, value and experience, imbued with nostalgic memories and the love of a particular place. But humanistic geographers failed to analyse the home as an embodied space shaped by different and unequal relations of power and as a space that might be dangerous, violent and alienating rather than loving and secure. Feminist, postcolonial and anti-racist research reveals more complex and contested spaces of home and identity that are shaped by the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, age and religion. Key themes that run throughout the module include: geographies of home on different scales; embodied geographies of home and identity; feminist, postcolonial and anti-racist geographies of home; material and imaginative geographies of home; and pandemic geographies of home.
The core text for the module is Blunt, A. and Dowling, R. (2022; 2nd edition) Home. London: Routledge (e-copies and printed copies are available in the library).
