Making-Unmaking-Remaking Home in Lockdown Margate
- Funded by British Academy
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Grant number: COV19\201569
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19Known Financial Commitments (USD)
$13,003.54Funder
British AcademyPrincipal Investigator
PendingResearch Location
United KingdomLead Research Institution
University of Kent, Kent School of Architecture and PlanningResearch Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Research to inform ethical issues
Research Subcategory
Research to inform ethical issues related to Social Determinants of Health, Trust, and Inequities
Special Interest Tags
N/A
Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Unspecified
Vulnerable Population
Vulnerable populations unspecified
Occupations of Interest
Unspecified
Abstract
Set in Dalby Square and Gardens, Margate, a vulnerable community disproportionately impacted by Covid-19, this project explores and maps home as process and network in a COVID 19 context using a transdisciplinary methodology drawing on law, history, architecture, health and housing studies. In this project home is understood as simultaneously bounded and networked, a space and a set of processes and relationships. We utilize the focus on home networking and home making-unmaking-remaking that has been the inevitable consequence of 'lockdown' to unpack the taken-for-granted understanding of home as a safe haven and explore issues around social and environmental regulation, inequalities, marginalization, vulnerability and dislocation as they have been intensified by COVID-19. We situate these in, somewhat paradoxical, historical understandings of Margate as a 'haven of health', and develop a toolkit for a rich and productive understanding of contemporary home making, unmaking and remaking during a global pandemic.