Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Dismantling Mantelpieces

   1. Introduction: Dismantling Mantelpieces

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 1-26

3. Pasts: History, Archive and Memory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Histories of Domestic Fire

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 29-50

   3. Mass Observation Mantelpieces

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 51-78

   4. Materialising Memory

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 79-97

4. Presents: Ordering Identities, Things and Home

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. Telling Identities

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 101-117

   3. Relating the Gift

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 118-132

   4. Focal Points

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 133-152

5. Cultures of ‘Home’: Other Ways of Looking

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Defamiliarising Home

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 155-174

   3. Genealogies of Difference

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 175-199

6. Conclusion: Culture, Clutter, Contemplation

   1. Conclusion: Culture, Clutter, Contemplation

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 200-220

7. Epilogue: Encounter

   1. Epilogue: Encounter

      • Rachel Hurdley

      Pages 221-224

8. Back Matter

   Pages 225-270

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Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home.  

• culture
• Europe
• identity
• memory
• Nation

Rachel Hurdley on Woman's Hour

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"Read it! If you have read it, read it again!" - David Morgan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester UK

"Renovates everyday life ananlysis ... a tour de force." - David Inglis, Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, UK

• Cardiff University, UK

  Rachel Hurdley

Rachel Hurdley is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, UK. Her research focuses on everyday relations between people, things, space and time, examining how identity, power and culture happen as small processes.

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