Fragile (Hi)stories
Materialities of Care in Everyday Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10757702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Omar Khaled Abdelrahman (0000-0003-1838-0980, University of Portsmouth London, UK, corresponding author), Emma Banister (0000-0001-7251-1764, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Daniel Hampson (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), Daniel P Hampson (0000-0003-4005-8875, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380385251401542 |
| OpenAlex | W7117750964 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
This article explores how everyday inherited or purchased old objects facilitate material affinities within and beyond familial settings. Drawing on ethnographic research incorporating in-depth object interviews, we highlight how care and curation are intertwined and shaped by the intersections of individuals’ perceptions of objects’ value and their personal values. Our findings offer insight into how objects function as mediators through which to demonstrate care and values, highlighting three ways this is manifested: kinship ties , surrogate objects and the preservation of societal histories . In doing so, we contribute to wider understandings of material affinities, emphasising how care and curatorial practices inform and charge objects’ abilities to connect people to meaningful (hi)stories
Ethnography · Everyday life · Function (biology · Object (grammar · Value (mathematics · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Heritage and Social Media
What Things Do
Who Cares?
Rubbish Theory
Care in everyday life
The cultural biography of things
Caring
Rethinking Family Practices
Foodwork and foodcare in hard times
The Cumulative Effects of Marketized Care
Doing Sensory Ethnography
Practising family history
Values beyond value? Is anything beyond the logic of capital
Clutter in domestic spaces
On Pastness
Moderating Contentious Care Relations
Documenting Families
Material Affinities
Displaying Families
The Modalities of Nostalgia
Conceptualising 'materialities of care
Doing Family over Time
| Highly cited | No |
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