Geraldine Pratt once said: “domestic space [can be a] a provocation, a refusal and reversal of conventional understandings of home as a bounded, protective space” (Pratt, 2004, p. 44). This chapter is the storying of a space of intimacy as multi-scalar and not tied to conventional notions of belongingness. It follows the narrative of a returning native who actively creates a place in an estranged home country by assembling materialities that correspond to a domestic space of an imagined home. Home-making becomes a process that transcends physical space and one that constantly makes, un-makes and remakes a liminal and intimate domestic space that connects the global and the national to the personal through the rearrangement of the material and the resistance to the physical.

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Situating: Fading Polaroids of Place

  • Joseph Palis

摘要

Geraldine Pratt once said: “domestic space [can be a] a provocation, a refusal and reversal of conventional understandings of home as a bounded, protective space” (Pratt, 2004, p. 44). This chapter is the storying of a space of intimacy as multi-scalar and not tied to conventional notions of belongingness. It follows the narrative of a returning native who actively creates a place in an estranged home country by assembling materialities that correspond to a domestic space of an imagined home. Home-making becomes a process that transcends physical space and one that constantly makes, un-makes and remakes a liminal and intimate domestic space that connects the global and the national to the personal through the rearrangement of the material and the resistance to the physical.