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作者

来源

CITY & COMMUNITY,Vol.18,Issue1,P.238-256

语言

英文

关键字

PERSPECTIVES; HOMELESSNESS; MIGRATION; LABOR

作者单位

[Vanzella-Yang, Adam] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Vanzella-Yang, A (reprint author), Univ British Columbia, Dept Sociol, 6303 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada. E-Mail: adamvy@mail.ubc.ca

摘要

Building on recent studies emphasizing how structural and contextual forces shape notions of home, I explore how the experience of home is related to the concepts of time and place. Using 46 interviews with 23 individuals, I investigate how home is defined and experienced by younger and older adults in relationship to Vancouver's particular cultural, geographic, and historical contexts. I find three main ways in which respondents established a sense of home in a city concomitantly known for its livability and unaffordability: the stepping-stone home (a future-oriented sense of home), the despatialized home (a present-oriented sense of home), and the extended home in time (a past-oriented perspective) and in place (a sense of home extended onto the natural environment). My study contributes toward comprehensive understandings of home with new empirical material showing how a taken-for-granted experience results from an interplay between structural, contextual, and individual factors.