A House Does Not Automatically Make a Home
Home is a key concept in cultural geography, which is distinguished from house by inclusion of the emotional, affective, and experiential qualities of the place that is (not) considered a home. In this presentation, Dr. Sander van Lanen will present the cultural geography perspective on home and how it intertwines with social and economic developments, including changes in law and legislation. He will illustrate this by exploring the impacts of austerity in Ireland on the sense of home of young adults from deprived neighbourhoods in Dublin and Cork. Finally, he will explore some avenues in cultural geography and its relationship to law.
About the speaker
Dr. Sander van Lanen is assistant professor at the University of Groningen and a member of the Young Academy Groningen. He researches the geography of inequality, poverty, and social exclusion, especially in cities. His expertise is in the following domains and their interactions:
- experiences of poverty and social exclusion
- coming of age in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
- social & spatial justice
- initiatives and interventions in the neighbourhood
- social infrastructure
- intergenerational poverty
More information can be found in his research minute on YouTube.
The seminar will be held online and takes place on the 29th of February from 4:00 to 5:00 PM (Amsterdam/Berlin/Paris, UTC+01:00).
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