ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on a study of family practices in family-run hotels, pubs and boarding houses in the UK. One focus of the research is the spatiality of such locations; that is, the dynamic of space and social life in the construction of everyday family life where this occurs alongside a business. While such single-location home/workplaces may constitute a comparatively ‘atypical case’ (Mitchell, 1983), their ‘inverted’ spatiality makes explicit those processes and practices which are often less visible in situations where the home and workplace are situated in discrete locations. More broadly, they show how family practices are also enacted in locations other than the domestic thus preventing family research from being confined to specific locations.
