#12172. Two houses, one family, and the battlefield of home: A housing story of home unmaking in rural Punjab

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Abstract:
This article investigates the lived experience of a family house as a battlefield between contrasting views, emotions, cultures, and practices of home. It aims to make sense of the underlying tensions as a matter of home unmaking – a process of disruption of the normative, relational or physical bases of home – within the housing pathway of an extended family. Building on in-depth interviews with family members and the observation of their dwellings, we explore the causes and consequences of home unmaking from without (due to environmental factors) and from within (after deep-rooted intergenerational tensions). By looking at peoples ongoing relations with particular domestic spaces and objects within a traditional house(hold), we highlight the negotiation of gender and generational roles and the attendant family transformations. Home unmaking, as a process with multiple sources, temporalities, and entanglements, provokes a range of reactions and counter-reactions in such settings. We capture them, and propose a framework for their comparative analysis and understanding, by embedding peoples narratives in their family and housing circumstances.
Keywords:
Domestic cultures; Home unmaking; House; Household; Punjab

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