Keeping & dwelling: Relational extension, the idea of home, and otherness

Joanna Latimer; Rolland Munro

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Keeping & dwelling: Relational extension, the idea of home, and otherness

Joanna Latimer^*, Rolland Munro

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This article explores the topic of home in terms of the art of dwelling. We set out to show that what people keep affects their experience of dwelling. Keeping, in this analysis, grants relational extension (Latimer 2009a, 2009b; Munro, 1996; Strathern, 1991; Latimer and Munro 2006), creating and reproducing worlds that bind. As we illustrate, the meaning of home for Euro-Americans can be understood as gravitating from feelings of belonging being anchored within specific locales to matters of identity being entangled in locutions that address the figure of self. In taking up Heidegger's (1978) argument that dwelling is thinking as much as it is building we go on to trouble how reflection, when conducted in the mode of comparison rather than contemplation, conflates keeping with issues of choice.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	317-331
Number of pages	15
Journal	Space and Culture
Volume	12
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331209337565
Publication status	Published - Aug 2009

Keywords

Care
Dwelling
Home
Keeping
Relational extension

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