Geographies of Housing and Home

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• be able to read and analyse a range of written texts, video and audio-visual materials
• plan and carry out an exacting piece of research in human geography and produce a report to a high standard

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• make critical use of case-study material
• pursue knowledge in an in-depth, ordered and motivated way
• be aware of the role and importance of evidence-based research
• take responsibility for own learning
• use your interpersonal skills in group activities, including project work in the field and have a respect for differing views
• produce fluent and comprehensive written reports on complex topics
• marshall and retrieve data from library and internet resources
• use your interpersonal skills in group activities, including project work in the field and have a respect for differing views

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• assess the merits of contrasting geographical theories, explanations and policies
• analyse reflectively and critically literature in human geography
• structure conceptual and empirical geographical material into a reasoned argument

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the distinctiveness of housing and home across particular places and regions
• the influence of spatial and temporal scale upon geographies of housing and home
• the value and need for multi-disciplinary approaches in advancing knowledge about geographies of housing and home

The module will develop understandings of the following themes:

• the state’s role in shaping geographies of housing and home
• changing attitudes towards and levels of home ownership in advanced industrial economies
• home cultures, home consumption and identity
• notions of the ‘ideal home’

Teaching and learning methods

Annotated Visual Catalogue (45%) and Seen Examination (55%)

Resources & Reading list

Journal Articles

(1991). Social Research. Home: a place in the world, 58(1).

Housing Theory and Society. Journal of Design History.

Home Cultures European. Journal of Housing Policy.

(2003). Antipode. Life's work,' including a section on 'Domesticity and Other Homely Spaces of Modernity, 35(3).

(1992). New Formations. 'Home, 17.

(2002). Signs. Forum: Domestic Space, 27(3).

(2004). Cultural Geographies. Geographies of Home, 11(1).

Housing Studies. Journal of Material Culture.

Textbooks

Rice, Charles (2007). The emergence of the interior: architecture, modernity, domesticity. London: Routledge.

Shove, Elizabeth (2003). Comfort, cleanliness and convenience: the social organisation of normality. Oxford: Berg.

Attfield, Judith (2000). Wild things: the material culture of daily life. Oxford: Berg.

Murie Alan, Jones C (2006). The Right to Buy: analysis and evaluation of a housing policy. Blackwell: Oxford.

Chapman, Tony and Hockey, Jenny, (eds.) (1999). Ideal homes? Social change and domestic life. London: Routledge.

Blunt, Alison (2005). Domicile and diaspora: Anglo-Indian women and the spatial politics of home. Oxford: Blackwell.

Blunt, Alison and Dowling, Robyn (2006). Home London. Routledge.

Silverstone, Roger (ed.) (1997). Visions of suburbia. London: Routledge.

Duncan, James (ed.) (1981). Housing and identity: cross-cultural perspectives. London: Croom Helm.

Saunders, Peter (1990). A nation of home owners. London: Unwin Hyman.

Putnam, Tim and Newton, Charles (eds.) (1990). Household choices. London: Futures Publications.

McDowell, Linda and Allen, John (1989). Landlords and property: social relations in the private rented sector. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Malpass, Peter and Murie, Alan (1999). Housing policy and practice. London: Macmillan.

Hanley, Lynsey (2012). Estates: an intimate history. London: Granta.

Woodward, Ian (2007). Understanding material culture. London: Sage.

Miller, Daniel (ed.) (1998). Material cultures: why some things matter. London: UCL Press.

Cole, Ian and Furbey, Robert (1994). The eclipse of council housing. London: Routledge.

Morley, David (2000). Home territories: media, mobility and identity. London: Routledge.

Cieraad, Irene (ed.) (1999). At home: an anthropology of domestic space Syracuse. Syracuse University Press.

Colomina, Beatriz (1998). Privacy and publicity: modern architecture as mass media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Parr, Joy (1999). Domestic goods: the material, the moral and the economic in the postwar years. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Valentine, Gill (2001). Social geographies: space and society. Harlow: Pearson.

Birdwell-Pheasant, Donna and Lawrence-Zúñiga, Denise, (eds.) (1999). House life: space, place and family in Europe. Oxford: Berg.

Bennett, Tony and Watson, Diane (2002). Understanding everyday life. Oxford: Blackwell.

Colomina, Beatriz (1998). Privacy and publicity: modern architecture as mass media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pink, Sarah (2004). Home truths: gender, domestic objects and everyday life. Oxford: Berg.

Sparke, Penny, Massey, Anna, Keeble, Trevor and Martin, Brenda, (eds.), (2009). Designing the modern interior: from the Victorians to today. Oxford: Berg.

Miller, Daniel (ed.) (2001). Home possessions: material culture behind closed doors. Oxford: Berg.

Miller, Daniel (2008). The comfort of things. Cambridge: Polity.

Assessment strategy

STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE FEEDBACK ON THIS MODULE IN FIVE MAIN WAYS:

1. In lectures (either within the lecture or just after it has finished) when I can discuss questions raised about ideas and/or assessment (including assessed work topic choices).

2. By email, when I will respond to any queries about the module or aspects of assessment.

3. In individual meetings, when students make an appointment to see me to discuss progress and ask questions about assessment (online-bookable office hour appointments will be available throughout the semester).

4. On the mark sheet which is returned with their assessment, when markers make comments about student work, its strong points and how students can develop ideas further.

5. From personal tutors in special feedback sessions held at the start of each semester. Tutors will be able to look at the comments on students’ work across different modules (as detailed in 4 above) and provide advice about ways in which students may be able to improve their performance in assessments.

Summative

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Referral

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Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External