Home Improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK

Hardback

Main Details

Title Home Improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Rosie Cox
SeriesHome
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:178
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9781474239301
ClassificationsDewey:306.460941
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 31 May 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book examines experiences of home improvement in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand, providing valuable insight into the ways in which people make and maintain home in social, material and economic context. Drawing on in-depth interviews, examining both DIY projects and projects carried out by professional handymen, Rosie Cox explores how home improvement fits into wider social relationships and structures of inequality. Consideration is given to the importance of such work for gender and national identities, and how these identities are related to material contexts and the forms and fabric of homes. The book also highlights how home improvement can be a rewarding and valuable form of work, as well as an unrewarding and alienating endeavour. It will be of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology and human geography.

Author Biography

Rosie Cox is Professor of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.