Shifting ‘home’ : exploring young Singaporean adults’ negotiations of ‘place’ and self.
The notion of ‘place’ and ‘space’ has traditionally been the concern of human geographers and spatial theorists. However, in line with Gieryn’s (2000) call for “A Space for Place in Sociology”, this paper attempts to address these issues using a sociological framework instead, by exploring...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51827 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | The notion of ‘place’ and ‘space’ has traditionally been the concern of human geographers
and spatial theorists. However, in line with Gieryn’s (2000) call for “A Space for Place in
Sociology”, this paper attempts to address these issues using a sociological framework
instead, by exploring how young Singaporean adults who have lived abroad negotiate the idea
of ‘home’ as it is lived, experienced and interpreted. Using in-depth narrative interviews to
uncover their place-making practices, the following dimensions of ‘home’ will be discussed:
(i) the ‘where’ and ‘what’ of home as it is constituted physically and relationally, (ii) how it is
experienced through the embodied habitus and finally, (iii) how it features in self-narratives
of personal growth and choice. |
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