Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures. (August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nethercote, Megan
• Is Part Of: Progress in human geography. Volume 46:Number 4(2022)
• Page Start: 935
• Page End: 959
• Publication Date: 2022-08
• Subjects: Settler colonialism -- Indigenous dispossession -- home -- homeunmaking -- property -- racial capitalism -- unhoming; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1177/03091325221104480
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-1325

Abstract

This article interrogates the racial logics of home and homemaking. It opens up the conceptual terrain of home to property – a technology of racial dispossession and handmaid of racial capitalism. I reconceptualize home as dominion and as belonging. Unhoming names the synergies between these modalities that authorizes the unmaking of racialized subjects' homes. I argue unhoming is a structural feature of racial capitalism and position resistance to unhoming as homemaking that might rescript propertied landscapes. Repositioning home as practised in propertied landscapes centres homemaking's life-giving and death-dealing contradictions and excavates the work home does for – and (might do) to disrupt – liberal property regimes.