Scales of Home Working Group - scalesofhomes Webseite!
Description
Our research project aims to analyse how scales of home are imagined and socially constructed in Europe since the 1990s. We focus on 'scalar narratives', 'scalar politics' and 'scalar practices' of home, to use Erik Swyngedouw's terminology. Our project concentrates on the time since the 1990s because this is a period marked by what the sociologist Hartmut Rosa describes as an acceleration of social change due to the digital, economic and political revolution. Moreover, the 1990s also witnessed the consolidation of a new super-national scale that, in turn, influenced how scales of home are imagined or constructed within European countries: the European Union.