‘Home’ has been used as a boundary-forming device to identify, homogenize, normalize, and exclude. Composed of family and nation, and attendant notions of their sanctity, ‘home’ is no longer open to reinterpretation and reconfiguration; it is pressured as a lived space. Insurgent Domesticities brings into focus the insurgent environments, objects, and practices that make up the maintenance, creation, labor, and intimacies of home. This collective conversation investigates the more processual aspects of domesticity to interrogate the politics of ‘home’ through histories of solidarity, disobedience, stealth, and militancy, from the scale of the clothesline to that of the state.

This discussion is presented in conjunction with our Settlement Symposium on March 28, 2025. (Separate event: more info here)
Learn more about the Insurgent Domesticities working group and access teaching tools here.

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