Stories of Home

Devika Chawla is associate professor and interim associate director for graduate studies in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University, Athens.Stacy Holman Jones is professor in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University.

Home is viewed as a space and place and associated with feelings, practices, and active states of being and moving in the world. This collection explores how we experience home and what home says about the selves we have become. This book is of interest and use to students and scholars in the fields of communication studies, cultural studies, performance studies, geography, gender studies, diaspora studies, and anthropology, and stands as an exemplar in qualitative, interpretive, critical, and auto-ethnographic methodology courses.

Chapter 1: Tracing Home's Habits: Affective Rhythms, Devika ChawlaChapter 2: Musing on Nomadism: Being and Becoming at Home on the Reindeer Range, Myrdene AndersonChapter 3: Be(Coming) Home, Jonathan Wyatt and Tessa WyattChapter 4: Childhood Homelessness: A Phenomenologial Reflection, Erik GarrettChapter 5: Home/less in Appalachia, Timothy BairdChapter 6: Motown Magic and Haunted Hollers: From One Othered America to Another, Rebecca Mercado ThorntonChapter 7: The Exile Narratives, Amarado RodriguezChapter 8: Men Making Home, Caryn MedvedChapter 9: Scott and Helen Nearing and the Narrative of the American Homestead as Retreat, Jennifer AdamsChapter 10: Trashing Home, Sean GleasonChapter 11: A Kind of Hush: Adoptee Diasporas and the Impossibility of Home, Anne M. HarrisChapter 12: Bodies of Working Class Knowledge, Imaginative Mobilities, and Kinesthetic Homes, Stacy Holman JonesChapter 13: Finding the Backroads Home, Tessa W. CarrChapter 14: Becoming Home (Elsewhere): Patriarchy Du Jour and the Resilience of Privilege, Craig Gingrich-PhilbrookConclusion: Home, Again, Stacy Holman Jones and Devika Chawla