Reconstructing Homes

Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto is a Senior Researcher in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

• Introduction: Exploring Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of HomeEerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas, Anna Kajander & Helmut De Nardi*This chapter is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from University of Jyväskylä.Part I: Autobiographical MaterialityChapter 1. Bridging Homes in Space and Time: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Affective Materiality across GenerationsMaja Povrzanović FrykmanChapter 2. Objects as Catalysts: How Absent Objects Connect Memory, Family History, and Transnational MobilityViktorija L.A. ČeginskasChapter 3. Home, A Place Not to FeelTomás ErrazurizPart II: Continuity through MaterialityChapter 4. Material Memories of Lost Karelia: Affective Reminders of Ancestral Villages in the Finnish Second World War Evacuee Families’ HomesOula SeitsonenChapter 5. Erased Landscapes and Reconstructed Cultures: The Effect of Materiality on Identity-rebuilding Processes of Karelian peopleMaarit SireniChapter 6. Adopted Heritage and the Rightness of Things: The “Uncanny” in the Creation of Home and BelongingAnna Kurpiel and Katarzyna ManiakPart III: Engagements with Affective MaterialityChapter 7. Constructing Affective Atmospheres at Home: Materiality and Meaningful objects of KinkJohanna PohtinenChapter 8. Craft Making at Home: Affective Practices of Coping with the Covid-19 PandemicAnna RauhalaChapter 9. Longing and Belonging: Exploring the Affective Role of Materiality in an International Adoption CaseGiovanna BacchidduPart IV: Essays: Material Traces and Future VisionsChapter 10. Everything You Own or Have Ever OwnedGabe MoshenskaChapter 11. Fair FuturesRobert WillimConclusionHelmut De Nardi

“I enjoyed reading this book. It has a nice balance between the ethnography of everyday life and theoretical discussions.” • Orvar Löfgren, University of Lund