Remembering the Cultural Geographies of a Childhood Home

Author:   Peter Hughes Jachimiak
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781409448129


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   17 July 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Peter Hughes Jachimiak
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9781409448129


ISBN 10:   1409448126
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   17 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: House, rooms, cobwebs - an introduction; The childhood spaces of the house; The childhood spaces of the garden; The childhood spaces of the street; The childhood spaces of suburbia; Epilogue - the hauntology of childhood; Bibliography; Index.

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The cultural context of Peter's childhood is widely explored in this book taking up a large proportion of the content. The author gives a vivid and familiar (to those who remember) sense of media influences in the 1970s and evokes the layers of social change in play at the time, not least the haunting of earlier generations and the echoes of war time fears. The moments of autobiography in the book though are the most compelling for me since it is with these that the author captures the often unspoken aura of childhood imaginings and experience. These beautifully written excerpts from memory tell how a child's way of being in the world emerges through sensual and feeling experience to cast an uncanny shadow over later life. Peter Hughes Jachimiak's book expresses a haunting of smells, tastes, fears and wonderings that linger some-times benignly but at other times profoundly in our adult selves. - Jane Franklin, Housing Studies


'This is a beautiful and heartfelt book which skilfully weaves together aspects of space, place, memory, emotional geographies of childhood, home and neighbourhood through lenses of autoethnography, cultural history and more besides'Owain Jones, Bath Spa University, UK


Author Information

Peter Hughes Jachimiak is senior lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales, UK. His research interests are to do with children’s cultures of the 1970s and 1980s and the way in which the cultural artefacts of childhood, of those two decades, manifested themselves within the wider cultural geographies of the time. As such, Peter Hughes Jachimiak’s current work explores, on one hand, ’children, spectralities, and ghost cultures’, and, on the other, ’utopia, dystopia, and science fiction aimed at children and young adults’.

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