Module description
The module introduces the home as a key site and spatial imaginary in the contemporary world. The course is structured to encourage students to explore both the making of home, but also challenges and disruptions to home through engagement with vibrant inter-disciplinary literature on this topic. Ultimately the course encourages students to consider the theoretical, empirical, and policy importance of geographies of home and homemaking.
Assessment details
3,000 word essay (100%)
Educational aims & objectives
Educational aims
• To provide an awareness of the key debates concerning home as a geographical and interdisciplinary concept.
• To offer a critical understanding of home as a contested site of belonging and alienation, intimacy and violence, desire and fear.
• To encourage understanding of home as a political entity linked to issues of spatial (in)justice and the operation of power at various and interlinking scales.
• To foster an appreciation of the complex meanings and experiences of home and homemaking amongst different individuals, communities, and countries across the world.
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
- Analyse and evaluate conceptual aspects of the study of home.
- Critically discuss empirical examples of home and homemaking in relation to political, economic, environmental, and social change.
- Recognise challenges and disruptions to home which can deny power and autonomy but can also bring about social movements and protest.
- Understand the need for differentiated and intersectional analyses of home and homemaking from the perspective of gender, sexuality, class, race, citizenship, lifecourse, and disability.
- Engage with both analytical, theoretical and policy work in geography and in other disciplines through analysis of a variety of textual and visual material on home and homemaking.
And show the following:
Practical Skills:
- Identify and explain reasoned solutions to conceptual problems;
- Gather, organise, evaluate and interpret information from a variety of sources;
- Study independently and understand concepts, theories and methods in a reflective manner.
Generic and Transferable skills:
- Effectively learn from and interpret non-academic source material on home from a museum setting;
- Communicate effectively and fluently in written mediums.