ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 situates the book within existing research on relationality, intimacy and personal life. We focus on the link between home, family and privacy within discourses of housing and domesticity, and the issues this raises for shared housing as a viable form of relationality. We consider contrasting understandings of sharing and how they are underpinned by different ways of relating and connecting between people. Finally, we explore the nature of relationships that form in shared housing and note that shared living arrangements hold up a mirror to many of the taken for granted practices that occur in familial households.
