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The Stuff of Family Life

How Our Homes Reflect Our Lives

By: Michelle Janning

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The Stuff of Family Life

How Our Homes Reflect Our Lives

By: Michelle Janning

Does putting your smartphone on the dinner table impact your relationships? How does where you place your TV in your home affect your family? The Stuff of Family Life takes readers inside the changing world of families through a unique examination of their stuff. From digital family photo albums to the growing popularity of “man caves,” author Michelle Janning looks at not only what large demographic studies say about family dynamics but also what our lives—and the stuff in them—say about how we relate to each other. The book takes readers through various phases of family life, including dating, marriage, parenting, divorce, and aging, while paying attention to how our choices about our spaces and objects impact our lives. Janning has joked, “I'm not a social scientist who uses large national datasets to illustrate family life; I’m the social scientist who asks people to examine what’s in their underwear drawers to tell stories about their family life.” From underwear drawers to calendars, The Stuff of Family Life offers an illuminating and entertaining look at the complexities of American families today.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442254807

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Between

Living Life in Neither Extreme

By: Michelle Janning

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Between

Living Life in Neither Extreme

By: Michelle Janning

Between: Living Life in Neither Extreme takes issues that emerge from the news, popular culture, and the author's past and present experiences and plops them into a set of essays that reflect the reality of our complex and messy lives.

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0744272378

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9780744272376

The Stuff of Family Life

How Our Homes Reflect Our Lives

By: Michelle Janning

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How Our Homes Reflect Our Lives

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Investing in Enchantment

Memory, Market, and the Family Vacation Home

By: Michelle Janning

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Investing in Enchantment

Memory, Market, and the Family Vacation Home

By: Michelle Janning

Should we keep the family cabin or list it on Airbnb? U.S. second homes are formally classified as investment properties used primarily for financial gain or vacation homes primarily reserved for personal use, but what have families actually been doing with them before, during, and after COVID-19 lockdowns? Today’s desire for authenticity and family connectedness has made family vacation homes a compelling site to examine how we think of labor and leisure, whom we include as family members and neighbors, and how all of this is represented both spatially and materially. Framed as a magical place for family members to look back on nostalgically, the family vacation home remains an enchanted and memory-filled site that is artificially removed from the marketplace, even if it is rented to others for their family vacations. It is meant to be a magical escape from the challenges of work and family stress, politics, and social inequalities. In reality, the family vacation home requires labor, has financial value as a piece of family wealth, and the magic is not accessible to all. In Investing in Enchantment, Michelle Janning tells a new story about the cultural meanings and structural outcomes surrounding family vacation homes today.

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1538182696

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A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers

By: Michelle Janning

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A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers

By: Michelle Janning

This book offers an efficient set of step-by-step tips and overarching lessons about how to gather useful, meaningful, and socially-informed data about clients’ and other stakeholders' experiences in architecture and interior design professions. In this guide, author Michelle Janning helps the design professional conduct ongoing evaluation of design projects, create useful pre- and post-design evaluations, frame effective questions for improved future design, involve various stakeholders in the research process, and focus on responsible and evidence-based human-centered design to improve the relationship between design and people’s experiences. Examining a variety of both large- and small-scale project examples from different institutional realms, including healthcare sites, schools, residences, eating establishments, museums, and theaters, this book highlights not only the overlap in these types of projects but also the differences between project sizes that may impact the methods used in any given project. It also offers tools for how to communicate design success to audiences that include potential clients, occupants, and other designers. A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers is a go-to reference for design professionals interested in using accessible social scientific methods to gather essential and practical information from people who occupy the spaces they design and to do so in an ethical, inclusive, and socially-informed way in order to enhance social sustainability in the built environment.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000796493

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Love Letters

Saving Romance in the Digital Age

By: Michelle Janning

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Love Letters

Saving Romance in the Digital Age

By: Michelle Janning

In today’s world of Tinder and texting, do we write and save love letters anymore? Are we more likely to save a screenshot of a text exchange or a box of paper letters from a lover? How might these different ways to store a love letter make us feel? Sociologist Michelle Janning’s Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age offers a new twist on the study of love letters: what people do with them and whether digital or paper format matters. Through stories, a rich review of past research, and her own survey findings, Janning uncovers whether and how people from different groups (including gender and age) approach their love letter "curatorial practices" in an era when digitization of communication is nearly ubiquitous. She investigates the importance of space and time, showing how our connection to the material world and our attraction to nostalgia matter in actions as seemingly small and private as saving, storing, stumbling upon, or even burning a love letter. Janning provides a framework for understanding why someone may prefer digital or paper love letters, and what that preference says about a person’s access and attachment to powerful cultural values such as individualization, taking time in a hectic world, longevity, privacy, and keeping cherished things in a safe place. Ultimately, Janning contends, the cultural values that tell us how romantic love should be defined are more powerful than the format our love letters take.

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Routledge

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1351678787

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The Politics of Regional Identity

Meddling with the Mediterranean

By: Michelle Pace

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The Politics of Regional Identity

Meddling with the Mediterranean

By: Michelle Pace

A keen analysis of the impact of European regionalism in the Mediterranean, focusing on the politics of representation and constructions of identity. The Mediterranean - as a region, as an area of EU policy and as a place on the fringe of a rapidly integrating Europe - has been a theoretically under-researched area. Containing empirical research on Greece, Malta and Morocco, this theory-led investigation into the political effects of the Mediterranean's symbolic geography, complements work done on the constitution of entities such as nations, Europe and the West. The Politics of Regional Identity draws on the field of critical IR and critical geopolitics to examine both the theoretical and empirical manifestations of these changing geopolitical images and discourses. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics, international relations and the European Union.

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1134315597

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Investing in Enchantment

Memory, Market, and the Family Vacation Home

By: Michelle Janning

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Memory, Market, and the Family Vacation Home

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A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers

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Love Letters

Saving Romance in the Digital Age

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Saving Romance in the Digital Age

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The Stuff of Family Life

The Stuff of Family Life

Between

Between

The Stuff of Family Life

The Stuff of Family Life

Investing in Enchantment

Investing in Enchantment

A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers

A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers

Love Letters

Love Letters

The Politics of Regional Identity

The Politics of Regional Identity

Investing in Enchantment

Investing in Enchantment

A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers

A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers

Love Letters

Love Letters

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