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Home Improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Home Improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK

Contributors:

By (Author) Rosie Cox

ISBN:

9781474239301

Series:
Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date:

31st May 2021

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

306.460941

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

178

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm

Weight:

453g

Description

This book examines experiences of home improvement in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand, providing valuable insight into the ways in which people make and maintain home in social, material and economic context. Drawing on in-depth interviews, examining both DIY projects and projects carried out by professional handymen, Rosie Cox explores how home improvement fits into wider social relationships and structures of inequality. Consideration is given to the importance of such work for gender and national identities, and how these identities are related to material contexts and the forms and fabric of homes. The book also highlights how home improvement can be a rewarding and valuable form of work, as well as an unrewarding and alienating endeavour. It will be of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology and human geography.

Author Bio

Rosie Cox is Professor of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

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