Reconstructing Homes

Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto is a Senior Researcher in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Introduction: Exploring Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of Home

Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas, Anna Kajander & Helmut De Nardi



Part I: Autobiographical Materiality



Chapter 1. Bridging Homes in Space and Time: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Affective Materiality across Generations

Maja Povrzanović Frykman



Chapter 2. Objects as Catalysts: How Absent Objects Connect Memory, Family History, and Transnational Mobility

Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas



Chapter 3. Home, A Place Not to Feel

Tomás Errazuriz



Part II: Continuity through Materiality



Chapter 4. Material Memories of Lost Karelia: Affective Reminders of Ancestral Villages in the Finnish Second World War Evacuee Families’ Homes

Oula Seitsonen



Chapter 5. Erased Landscapes and Reconstructed Cultures: The Effect of Materiality on Identity-rebuilding Processes of Karelian people

Maarit Sireni



Chapter 6. Adopted Heritage and the Rightness of Things: The “Uncanny” in the Creation of Home and Belonging

Anna Kurpiel and Katarzyna Maniak



Part III: Engagements with Affective Materiality



Chapter 7. Constructing Affective Atmospheres at Home: Materiality and Meaningful objects of Kink

Johanna Pohtinen



Chapter 8. Craft Making at Home: Affective Practices of Coping with the Covid-19 Pandemic

Anna Rauhala



Chapter 9. Longing and Belonging: Exploring the Affective Role of Materiality in an International Adoption Case

Giovanna Bacchiddu



Part IV: Essays: Material Traces and Future Visions



Chapter 10. Everything You Own or Have Ever Owned

Gabe Moshenska



Chapter 11. Fair Futures

Robert Willim



Conclusion

Helmut De Nardi