Thinking Home

Sanja Bahun is Professor in Literature and Film at the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK.Bojana Petric is Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Homing in on Home, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Part One: Homeness and Home-Making Introduction to Part One, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 1. Anyone—Any Arthur, Sean or Stan: Home-making as Human Capacity and Individual Practice, Nigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews, UK) 2. Domestic Dislocation – When Home Is Not So Sweet, Safe Ground (charity, UK) 3. Home: Paradoxes, Complexities, and Vital Dynamism, Renos K. Papadopoulos (University of Essex, UK) 4. Strained Belonging and Claims to Home: Ancestors and Descendants of the New York African Burial Ground, Susan C. Pearce (East Carolina University, USA) 5. Harvesting Stories: Home and Communities (Art Project), Lily Hunter Green (artist, UK) Part Two: Home and Dispossession Introduction to Part Two, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 6.”He’s just a bum, but who ain’t?” The Mirror of Homelessness, Amy M.E. Morris (Cambridge University, UK) 7. Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars: Homelessness, Responsibility and Social Welfare Entitlement, Vivienne Ashley (Independent Scholar, UK) 8. Recalling Home: Farewell to the House in Petrínská Street (A Theatre Project), Biljana Golubovic and Dragan Dragin (artists, Czech Republic) 9. The Emotional Dimension of Trading on Home in Later Life: Experiences of Shame, Guilt and Pride’, Louise Overton (University of Birmingham, UK), Lorna Fox O’Mahony (University of Essex, UK), and Matthew Gibson (University of Birmingham, UK) Part Three: Languages of Home Introduction to Part Three, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 10. The Romani Language: A Signpost to Home, Damian Le Bas (artist, UK) 11. Migration and Belonging in the Home Literacies of Mirpuri Families, Anthony Capstick (University of Reading, UK) 12. Language at Home: A Reclaimed Heritage, Susan Samata (University of Sheffield, UK) Index