1. Introducing and understanding home
Katie Walsh and Elaine Stratford
PART I THEORISING HOME
Part I Introduction: theorising home
Elaine Stratford and Katie Walsh
2. Creatively researching home
Katie Walsh and Elaine Stratford
3. Ethnography and home
Farhan Samanani and Johannes Lenhard
4. Eros, sexuality, and the home
Max J. Andrucki and Adam Gaubinger
5. Temporality, race, and home
Megan Nethercote
6. Intersectional feminists reimagining home
Brenda Parker
7. Home and homelessness
Nicholas Pleace and Joanne Bretherton
8. Writing against home
Ayham Dalal
9. Domicide and home unmaking
Mel Nowicki
10. The colonies of home
Michele Lancione
11. Home, housing, and law
Lorna Fox O'Mahony
12. The global intimate in the climate emergency
Mohammed Rafi Arefin and Geraldine Pratt
13. Homing with nature
Emily J. Flies, Francisco Gelves-Gomes, and Pauline Marsh
PART II HOUSING AND HOME
Part II Introduction: housing and home
Elaine Stratford and Katie Walsh
14. Global finance and the neoliberal home
Keith Jacobs
15. Housing inequalities and home in higher income countries
H. Mark Schwartz and Bent Sofus Tranøy
16. Home, housing rights, and housing inequality
Ruchika Lall
17. Urban gentrification and domicide
Yunpeng Zhang
18. Designs for home
Marjolein Overtoom
19. Experiencing homelessness
Skye Constantine
20. Home in refugee camps
Charalampos Tsavdaroglou
21. Student accommodation and home
Nick Revington, Esra Alkim Karaagac, and Nancy Worth
22. Community-led housing and home
Lauren Gower
23. Gated homes
Samer Bagaeen
24. Urban squatting and home
Alexander Vasuvedan
PART III DOMESTICITIES AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Part III Introduction: domesticities and everyday life
Elaine Stratford and Katie Walsh
25. The domestic interior
Penny Sparke
26. Gendered home lives
Medora W. Barnes
27. Domestic violence
Janet C. Bowstead
28. Neurodivergence and home
Lan Phuong Nguyen, Viviana d’Auria, and Ann Heylighen
29. Housing for inclusive homes
Phevos Kallitsis
30. Homeworking
Darja Reuschke
31. Digital technologies and home
Deborah Chambers
32. Home and religion
Emma Grimley, Orlando Woods, and Lily Kong
33. Consumption, identity, and home
Charishma Ratnam
34. Food practices and home
Yunting Qi
PART IV GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND HOME FUTURES
Part IV Introduction: global challenges and home futures
Elaine Stratford and Katie Walsh
35. Genocide, war, and home
Marie E. Berry
36. Un/homing and diaspora
Anastasia Christou
37. Citizenship, home, and asylum
Paula Merikoski
38. Diaspora and ‘homeland’ development
Stephen Syrett and Janroj Yilmaz Keles
39. The postcolonial home and belonging
Elizabeth McMahon and Celeste White
40. Situated performances of home
Stuart Andrews
41. Global domestic labour and home care
Lena Näre
42. Code augment smart homes
Sophia Maalsen
43. Home urban
Ashraful Alam
44. Tourism and home
Maartje Roelofsen
45. Housing sustainability and home in the climate emergency
Louise Crabtree-Hayes
46. Earth as island home
Godfrey Baldacchino and Anna Baldacchino
Biography
Elaine Stratford is a professor in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania, with interests in the geohumanities and cultural and political geography. Her research seeks to understand the conditions in which people flourish in place, in their movements, in daily life, and over the lifecourse. She is the author of several books, edited collections, and many chapters and articles. Her most recent monographs were published in 2019 under the title Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire, and in 2023 under the titles Rethinking Island Methodologies, with Godfrey Baldacchino and Elizabeth McMahon, and Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land, with Philip Hutch. Elaine is also an editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Home with Katie Walsh, and her next sole-authored book, The Drowned, is to be published in 2025. Work on Rethinking Life Course Geographies has, in early 2025, been supported by a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Writer’s Residency award. For the decade from 2015 to 2024 Elaine was the editor-in-chief of the international journal, Geographical Research, and is now its senior associate editor. She received the Institute of Australian Geographers’ Griffith Taylor Medal for Distinguished Service to the Discipline in Australia in 2022. When not working, she plants, harvests, and cooks, walks and works out, reads up a storm, and hangs out with loved ones.
Katie Walsh is Reader in Human Geography in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK, where she has developed an undergraduate module on home. Over the last two decades, Katie has published wide-ranging empirical research on home in relation to transnationalism, materialities, emotion, intimacy, family, ageing, Britishness, and migrant belonging. More recently, she has been exploring Mass Observation project data, using it to think through the embodied home, housing inequalities, and ageing. Katie is also motivated in her work on home by personal experience of being a single parent household navigating the UK’s crises in building safety and leasehold homeownership. Among other publications, Katie is author of an ethnographic monograph on British migration to Dubai, Transnational Geographies of the Heart: Intimate Subjectivities in a Globalising City (2018), and has co-edited Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age (Routledge, 2016, with Lena Näre), British Migration (Routledge, 2019, with Pauline Leonard), and The New Expatriates: Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals (Routledge, 2012, with Anne-Meike Fechter).
"This scholarly and international contribution comes at a juncture in society when the value of home is challenged, yet its significance to how we live individually and collectively is being re-imagined. Shaped within a sharp analysis of the myriad social forces that mediate the experiences and meanings of home, this collection is groundbreaking."
Cameron Parsell, Professor of the Social Sciences, The University of Queensland
"In the context of a global housing crisis and numerous geopolitical crises , the notion of ‘home’ is becoming more and more debated across and within disciplines. This handbook provides a comprehensive and insightful look into this field. A must read for anyone interested in this most basic of needs."
Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities and Professor of Sociology, Boston University
"The Routledge Handbook of Home is packed with rich material reflecting the multi-layered, multi-spatial and multi-disciplinary concept of home. It offers critical insights into people’s diverse experiences of home and is an essential resource for understanding the complexities, challenges and crises of this fundamental aspect of humanity."
Jenny Hoolachan, Senior Lecturer of Criminology, Cardiff University
"This handbook of many interpretations of home and what it means to have a home is worthy of study. The diverse origins of its contributors also ensure the book has global relevance. This is a book to have to hand for everyone dealing with modern problems of housing and home."
Professor Brenda Vale, Victoria University of Wellington
"This handbook is impressive in its intellectual and geographical breadth. It encompasses the critical economic dimensions of housing, but also considers how we live within, and without, homes. It provides rich insights into how homes are made and unmade, with careful attention to both structural and individual factors."
Damian Collins, Professor of Human Geography, University of Alberta
"This timely collection critically examines housing as home—across sites of belonging, exclusion, and unmaking—through an intersectional lens. Accessible, comprehensive, and engaging, yet maintaining a sharp critical edge, it offers an essential overview of current thinking on home. A key strength lies in its amplification of emerging and established voices across disciplinary, methodological, and geographical boundaries, reinvigorating long-standing debates with fresh insight."
Özlem Çelik, University of Turku, Finland
“An interdisciplinary tour de force which welcomes scholars to think more critically about the everyday complexities of home in a crisis-ridden world."
Katherine Brickell, Professor of Urban Studies, King’s College London, UK
