Critical perspectives on home (008GS)
30 credits, Level 6
Spring teaching
The meaning of home is often taken-for-granted as a mundane and trivial feature of everyday life, but in this module you'll explore its complexity in full.
Workshops focus on domestic practices of home in terms of:
- consumption
- display and identification
- the inhabitation of the embodied and sensuous home space
- family
- heteronormativity and gendered practices of home (un)making
- the lifecourse and home as a site of childhood and ageing
- the politics of housing and home, including displacement, domicide and homelessness
- migration, belonging and transnational home-making.
Your studies of the representation of home in literature and film will be complemented by a trip to the Geffrye Museum of Home.
We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We鈥檙e planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.
We鈥檒l make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Courses
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