Oikography.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shobeiri, Ali.

Contributor:

Westgeest, Helen.

Series:

Media | Art | Politics Series

Media | Art | Politics Series ; v.4

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Whether one is in front of the camera or behind it, inside their home or outside their house, photographs have proven indispensable in probing into the idea of home. In a time when displacement, migration, and homelessness have become commonplace due to geopolitical conflicts and oppressive ideologies, the role of photography in exploring the process of homemaking has become an irrefutable fact of sociopolitical debates. With that in mind, how can a representational medium deal with home as something that is not necessarily limited to the photographic frame? In other words, can photography embody the emotional and interpersonal aspects of home as well as participate in the social, political, and cultural debates on homemaking? Echoing the word photography, which is a compound of phōtós (light) and graphé (writing/drawing), this book defines "oikography" (oikos + graphé) as "homemaking through photography". Following the same logic, it considers "oikographs" as photographs whose principal function is twofold: reflecting on the idea of home and dwelling on the process of homemaking. With the concept of home at its methodological and theoretical core, 'Oikography' aims to show how photography envisages, embodies and apperceives home as a spatial idea, regardless of whether that space is idealized or ideologized, ontologized or theorized, materialized or dematerialized, territorialized or deterritorialized, or internalized within us or externalized around us. To this end, 'Oikography' asks: How can photography represent the lived, perceived, and conceived experiences of homemaking?.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction

Ali Shobeiri

Part I: Domiciliation and Inhabitation

Chapter 1: Domestic Divas: Tunten at Home

Cole Collins

Chapter 2: Inhabiting Memories: Photography and Domestic Interiors in Take Me to Live with You

Flavia Matitti

Chapter 3: Uncanny Homes: Early Computer Cultures in West German Home Decor Magazine and Catalogue Photography

Monique Miggelbrink

Table of Contents: The Home and the Image: Locating Passport Photos

Anuja Mukherjee

Chapter 5: Bars and Bodies: Queer Kinship in Latinx Portraiture

Katherine Mato

Part II: Displacement and Dislocation

Chapter 6: On Homelessness, Homemaking through Objects, and Photographic Frames

Helen Westgeest

Chapter 7: Migrant Photography: Reimagining Belonging, Memory, and Home through Photography

Aline Frey

Chapter 8: Daily Lives of the Displaced: New Understanding of Home in Ukraine

Kateryna Filyuk

Chapter 9: Palestinian Oikography: A Case Study of Destroyed Palestinian Houses and the Social/Relational Consequences

Aleena Karim

Part III: Home Dreams and Ghosted Homes

Chapter 10: Dream Estate: Imagining Ownership in Real Estate Photography

Stanka Radovic

Chapter 11: Photography contra Real-Estate Imaginary: Global City Phantasms in India's National Capital Region

Santasil Mallik

Chapter 12: Housing Images: Books, Objects, and Museums in the Home/Archive

Suryanandini Narain

Biographies.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

94-006-0516-1

94-006-0506-4

OCLC:

1530792204