When people move country, they experience new social, infrastructural, and ambient contingencies, which enables them to imagine otherwise unknowable possible futures ‘at home’. In this article, we mobilise a design anthropological approach to show how collaboration with temporary migrants can generate understandings that generate insights regarding future sustainable products in emerging economies. We draw on research with temporary Indonesian student migrants in Australia, which explored how they envisioned their possible domestic futures through their changing laundry practices.
Girls’ Work in a Rural Intercultural Setting
Formative Experiences and Identity in Peasant Childhood
Ana Padawer
through role-play and gradual incorporation into the domestic activities of social reproduction. There was a basic division of labor by sex on the farms I visited: girls like Sonia were initiated into caring for younger siblings, doing laundry, and cooking
Radio Free Europe Information Item #687/54 (29 January 1954)
“The Decline of Family Life”
Melissa Feinberg
position of secretary, most of the employees were communists who advised her to arrange her marriage according to the “communist formula,” that is, she should send her child to a nursery, eat in the factory canteen, have the laundry done in the state
City Sterilization and Poverty Management
Examining a Mobility Hub in the “Redevelopment and Enhancement” of Downtown Tallahassee
Christopher M. McLeod, Matthew I. Horner, Matthew G. Hawzen and Mark DiDonato
, education, and stable income.” 33 Services included telephones, Internet, computers, shower and laundry facilities, information and referral services, travel assistance, medical care, case management, GED/literacy/life skills classes, physical activity and
High-rise social failures
Regulating technologies, authority, and aesthetics in the resettlement of Taipei military villages
Elisa Tamburo
disruption of the relocated inhabitants, in this article I focus on other relevant, yet overlooked, factors—that is, the regulative and normative role of the high-rise. Figure 4: The informal settlement: laundry hanging in the alleys (© Elisa Tamburo). This
Made in Nigeria
Duress and Upwardly Mobile Youth in the Biography of a Young Entrepreneur in Enugu
Inge Ligtvoet
other choice” if he wanted to go to school. He refused to settle for a life on the street making money through criminal activities, the only other choice available, according to him, and the easy way out. Fortunately, his laundry business took off, and
Green Fields and Blue Roads
The Melancholy of the Girl Walker in Irish Women’s Fiction
Maureen O’Connor
piece, Enright discusses the unburied, dishonoured dead, in particular Ireland’s unwanted, ‘illegitimate’ children, born to young women and girls locked away in Magdalene laundries and mother-and-baby homes, both run by the Catholic Church, charged with
“Like Alice, I was Brave”
The Girl in the Text in Olemaun’s Residential School Narratives
Roxanne Harde
). While she makes clear that her feelings are hurt, Olemaun refuses to blame or condemn Agnes. Rather, she takes matters into her own hands and waits for an opportunity (while doing extra work in the laundry) to burn the hated stockings to ashes. Adding
Anthropologists and Healers
Radical Empiricists
Edith Turner
active, combative temperament. A few days after we had seen Netta off in the ambulance, Carrie and I were back in Claire’s house, helping her with the laundry this time. She began to describe the sense she had of feeling the pain of the sick: “I can feel
Jane M. Kubiesa, Looi van Kessel, Frank Jacob, Robert Wood and Paul Gordon Kramer
relations one has with one’s own body, other bodies, the state and its laws—even with laundry (17). The book “isn’t about inner life, but, rather, outer surfaces” (41). Stylistically, Caron inscribes the disjointed physicality of HIV with personal anecdotes
