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Privileging Place - Meaghan Stiman

Privileging Place

How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2024
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23996-5 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spaces

In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place, Meaghan Stiman examines the experiences of predominantly upper-middle-class suburbanites who bought second homes in the city or the country. Drawing on interviews with more than sixty owners of second homes and ethnographic data collected over the course of two years in Rangeley, Maine, and Boston, Massachusetts, Stiman uncovers the motivations of these homeowners and analyzes the local consequences of their actions. By doing so, she traces the contours of privilege across communities in the twenty-first century.

Stiman argues that, for the upper-middle-class residents of suburbia who bought urban or rural second homes, the purchase functioned as a way to balance a desire for access to material resources in suburban communities with a longing for a more meaningful connection to place in the city or the country. The tension between these two contradictory aims explains why homeowners bought second homes, how they engaged with the communities around them, and why they ultimately remained in their suburban hometowns. The second home is a place-identity project—a way to gain a sense of place identity they don’t find in their hometowns while still holding on to hometown resources. Stiman’s account offers a cautionary tale of the layers of privilege within and across geographies in the twenty-first century.

Meaghan L. Stiman is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 10 tables.
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Immobilien / Grunderwerb
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-691-23996-7 / 0691239967
ISBN-13 978-0-691-23996-5 / 9780691239965
Zustand Neuware
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