ABSTRACT
While the ‘spatial turn’ within the social sciences has already nurtured a broad discussion of the relation between society and space, little attention has so far been paid to the question of what we can learn about families when exploring space in its different facets. This book brings together international authors from the fields of sociology, human geography, and anthropology to support the development of space-sensitive and de-territorialised perspectives on the family that reach beyond classical concepts such as the ‘household’ or the ‘nuclear family’. With close attention to the implications of differing relations to space for the social fabric of families, it presents studies of theoretical, methodological, and empirical aspects of late-modern family life. Examining the meaning of absence and presence for parenting, the aesthetic, and sensual dimensions of everyday family life, and its digital and media-related features aspects, Family and Space considers the value of a range of approaches to researching the spatial elements of family life, including ethnographic accounts, interviews, group discussions, mobile methods, and network analyses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Understanding family and space
chapter |12 pages
Co-presence and family
chapter |12 pages
Parenthood as a symbolic order
chapter |13 pages
Space and the intersection of gender, work and family
part |2 pages
Space-sensitive research on family and identity
chapter |12 pages
Notions of space and family
chapter |15 pages
Social relations, space, and place
chapter |11 pages
Multi-local family life
chapter |10 pages
Sensory encounters and mobile technologies
part |2 pages
Space in family – family in space