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Introduction: Exploring Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of Home
Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas, Anna Kajander & Helmut De Nardi
*This chapter is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from University of Jyväskylä.

Part I: Autobiographical Materiality

Chapter 1. Bridging Homes in Space and Time: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Affective Materiality across Generations
Maja Povrzanović Frykman

Chapter 2. Objects as Catalysts: How Absent Objects Connect Memory, Family History, and Transnational Mobility
Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas

Chapter 3. Home, A Place Not to Feel
Tomás Errazuriz

Part II: Continuity through Materiality

Chapter 4. Material Memories of Lost Karelia: Affective Reminders of Ancestral Villages in the Finnish Second World War Evacuee Families’ Homes
Oula Seitsonen

Chapter 5. Erased Landscapes and Reconstructed Cultures: The Effect of Materiality on Identity-rebuilding Processes of Karelian people
Maarit Sireni

Chapter 6. Adopted Heritage and the Rightness of Things: The “Uncanny” in the Creation of Home and Belonging
Anna Kurpiel and Katarzyna Maniak

Part III: Engagements with Affective Materiality

Chapter 7. Constructing Affective Atmospheres at Home: Materiality and Meaningful objects of Kink
Johanna Pohtinen

Chapter 8. Craft Making at Home: Affective Practices of Coping with the Covid-19 Pandemic
Anna Rauhala

Chapter 9. Longing and Belonging: Exploring the Affective Role of Materiality in an International Adoption Case
Giovanna Bacchiddu

Part IV: Essays: Material Traces and Future Visions

Chapter 10. Everything You Own or Have Ever Owned
Gabe Moshenska

Chapter 11. Fair Futures
Robert Willim

Conclusion
Helmut De Nardi

Reconstructing Homes

Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of Belonging

Edited by Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas, Anna Kajander & Helmut De Nardi

232 pages, 22 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-573-7 Hb Published (July 2024)

eISBN 978-1-80539-574-4 eBook