The Right to Home
Exploring How Space, Culture, and Identity Intersect with Disparities
Authors: Hadjiyanni, Tasoulla
Free Preview- Explores the relationship between living space and social inequalities
- Includes stories from varied perspectives for a holistic analysis
- Presents an argument for action toward Culturally Enriched Communities
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- About this book
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This book explores how the design characteristics of homes can support or suppress individuals’ attempts to create meaning in their lives, which in turn, impacts well-being and delineates the production of health, income, and educational disparities within homes and communities. According to the author, the physical realities of living space—such as how kitchen layouts restrict cooking and the size of social areas limits gatherings with friends, or how dining tables can shape aspirations—have a salient connection to the beliefs, culture, and happiness of the individuals in the space. The book’s purpose is to examine the human capacity to create meaning and to rally home mediators (scholars, educators, design practitioners, policy makes, and advocates) to work toward Culturally Enriched Communities in which everyone can thrive. The volume includes stories from Hmong, Somali, Mexican, Ojibwe, and African American individuals living in Minnesota to show how space intersects with race, gender, citizenship, ability, religion, and ethnicity, positing that social inequalities are partially spatially constructed and are, therefore, malleable.
- About the authors
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Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, PhD, is Professor of Interior Design at the University of Minnesota. Her book The Making of a Refugee – Children Adopting Refugee Identity in Cyprus (Praeger, 2002) centered her scholarship on design as a medium for creating Culturally Enriched Communities, healthy and connected communities in which everyone can thrive.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction: Oikophilia
Pages 1-16
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The “and”
Pages 17-41
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Hmong Stories: “Only in the house do your dead ancestors live”
Pages 43-86
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Somali Stories: “I hope God will not isolate me from my community”
Pages 87-133
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Mexican Stories: “I can talk to her and she listens”
Pages 135-184
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Right to Home
- Book Subtitle
- Exploring How Space, Culture, and Identity Intersect with Disparities
- Authors
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- Tasoulla Hadjiyanni
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-59957-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-59957-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95945-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 332
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
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