Routledge Handbook of Home

This global, critical, and interdisciplinary handbook rethinks home as a material, emotional, and geopolitical site. It examines housing, displacement, domesticity, climate, care, and the intimate labours of home. Across diverse contexts, it challenges romanticised ideals and illuminates home's inequalities, exclusions, and possibilities through feminist, decolonial, and life-course perspectives. Spanning 46 chapters across four parts ('Theorising Home', 'Housing and Home', 'Domesticities and Everyday Life', and 'Global Challenges and Home Futures'), and with contributions from authors from around the world, this handbook blends conceptual innovation with grounded research. It offers global case studies, theoretical depth, and pedagogical tools on home's entanglements with law, ecology, technology, violence, and more-making it indispensable for critical scholarship, teaching, and practice. Designed for a broad audience, this handbook supports undergraduate learning, graduate teaching, and advanced research. It equips scholars, educators, activists, policymakers, and practitioners with essential insights and resources to engage with home as a site of power, identity, and struggle in a rapidly changing world.