The Embarrassment of Co-presence: Au pairs and Their Rooms

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Embarrassment of Co-presence: Au pairs and Their Rooms

Original language description

This article explores the ways Slovak au pairs living in London relate to their rooms through decoration and alternative aesthetic strategies. In this article the theme is neither the appropriation nor the refusal of personal spaces, but tahter an ambivalence that becomes evident through the detailed study of material culture. The source of this ambivalence lies both in the transcience of their residence and in the contradictions inherent in the au pair scheme, causing a relationship that I explore as the embarrassment of co-presence. The evidence suggests that au pairs find themselves torn between a desire to settle and appropriate a space and an equal desire not to be present or not to make an impact upon this space. This emerges not only from strategies of (non-) decoration, but also from au pairs exploitation of the parameters of tidiness and mess and alternative foci of self-expression such as the individual body.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2006

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Home Cultures

ISSN

1740-6315

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

23

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