ABSTRACT

At the beginning of this book we asked ‘what does home mean to you?’ To what extent, since reading the book, has your answer to this question changed? How do your own experiences and feelings about home relate to the critical geography of home that we have developed in this book? Hopefully you have begun to think more critically about the ways in which the home is shaped by a wide range of socio-political and cultural processes that vary over time and space, whereby what home is, and what home means, depends to a large extent on who you are and where you are. We hope that you have thought about familiar, homely, and often taken-for-granted aspects of home in more critical ways, and that you have also learnt about less familiar, unhomely and more unsettling notions of home.