The Meaning of Home
A Chimerical Concept or a Legal Challenge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11448952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorna Fox (Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 580-610 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Law and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-323X • E-ISSN: 1467-6478 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-6478.00234 |
| OpenAlex | W2139187634 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 2 |
‘Home’ is not an easy concept to pin down. Although the term is instantly familiar, and the physical reality of home is an important and omnipresent feature of our everyday lives, the legal conception of home has received surprisingly little attention. The relative neglect of home is particularly striking, however, in light of the substantial body of research which has been carried out on the subject of home in other disciplines. This article discusses the meanings of home which have evolved from interdisciplinary research. It is argued that this research could provide a starting point for the development of a more clearly articulated socio–legal understanding of the meaning and value of home to occupiers. It is suggested that a legal concept of the meaning of home would be useful, for instance, when considering the conflict of interests between the occupiers of a property ‘as a home’, and other parties with ‘non–home’ interests in the property, for example, creditors. This article seeks to identify some of the values of home which might inform a legal concept of home, and so be ‘weighed in the balance’ on the occupier's side when decisions involving conflicts between home interests and commercial interests are considered
Epistemology · Group home · Law and economics · Meaning (existential · Neglect · Political science · Property (philosophy · Public relations · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Psychology
Home as temporary unless owned
At home in the high-rise
The Dialectics of ‘Home’ in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun
Making a Home
‘Back Home in the States’
From homelessness to hotel living during the Covid-19 pandemic
Globalization and Housing Rights
Intimate relationships between older people in institutional settings
Credit and Credibility
Home for the Common Future (HCF)
Kratka prolegomena o »pravu na dom« u Zakonu o stečaju potrošača
Consuming Ownership
The Idea of Home in Law
Home Invasion
The Symbolic Realm of Italian Migrants’ Post-WWII Houses in Australia
The power of House + Home
Transnational Homemaking Practices
Using “Home” to Explain the Factors Affecting Residential Satisfaction The Case of Panama’s Heterogeneous Environments During The Covid-19 Crisis
The archive as home
Sole voices
BA v The King and the law of home
The complexities of home and belonging in the Gulf-Malayalee experience
Changing the meaning of ‘vulnerable’ under the homelessness legislation
Exploring separated fathers’ understandings and experiences of ‘home’ and homemaking
We Could Not Imagine Their Home Could Be Our Home’
Home’ as an essentially contested concept and why this matters
Homeownership, saving and financial wealth
Smart but unfriendly
An exploratory study of house-sitting and ‘home’-making among older people
Lydiate is now our home of a sort
Intimately Inhabiting Borders
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,48 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |