The Routledge Handbook of Home

Reviews / Votes

"This scholarly and international contribution comes at a juncture in society when the value of home is challenged, yet its significance to how we live individually and collectively is being re-imagined. Shaped within a sharp analysis of the myriad social forces that mediate the experiences and meanings of home, this collection is groundbreaking."

Cameron Parsell, Professor of the Social Sciences, The University of Queensland

"In the context of a global housing crisis and numerous geopolitical crises , the notion of 'home' is becoming more and more debated across and within disciplines. This handbook provides a comprehensive and insightful look into this field. A must read for anyone interested in this most basic of needs."

Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities and Professor of Sociology, Boston University

"The Routledge Handbook of Home is packed with rich material reflecting the multi-layered, multi-spatial and multi-disciplinary concept of home. It offers critical insights into people's diverse experiences of home and is an essential resource for understanding the complexities, challenges and crises of this fundamental aspect of humanity."

Jenny Hoolachan, Senior Lecturer of Criminology, Cardiff University

"This handbook of many interpretations of home and what it means to have a home is worthy of study. The diverse origins of its contributors also ensure the book has global relevance. This is a book to have to hand for everyone dealing with modern problems of housing and home."

Professor Brenda Vale, Victoria University of Wellington

"This handbook is impressive in its intellectual and geographical breadth. It encompasses the critical economic dimensions of housing, but also considers how we live within, and without, homes. It provides rich insights into how homes are made and unmade, with careful attention to both structural and individual factors."

Damian Collins, Professor of Human Geography, University of Alberta

"This timely collection critically examines housing as home-across sites of belonging, exclusion, and unmaking-through an intersectional lens. Accessible, comprehensive, and engaging, yet maintaining a sharp critical edge, it offers an essential overview of current thinking on home. A key strength lies in its amplification of emerging and established voices across disciplinary, methodological, and geographical boundaries, reinvigorating long-standing debates with fresh insight."

OEzlem Celik, University of Turku, Finland

"An interdisciplinary tour de force which welcomes scholars to think more critically about the everyday complexities of home in a crisis-ridden world."

Katherine Brickell, Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London, UK