Getting your stuff together: The role of storage and decluttering services in the management of domestic materiality over the life course

将您的物品放在一起：存储和整理服务在生命周期家庭物质管理中的作用

• 批准号: ES/T007508/1
• 负责人: Jennifer Owen
• 金额: $ 11.28万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT007508%2F1
• 关键词: Getting; your; stuff; together; role

As a society it is thought that we have smaller homes but own more possessions than ever; have more mobile lifestyles and uncertain lives yet desire stability. The aim of the proposed fellowship is to contribute to understandings of these contemporary phenomenon by developing approaches which attest to our changing relationships with material things and our homes over the lifecourse. Building on novel insights from my PhD research this fellowship will further explore and communicate issues of (1) a lack of theorisations of stored objects and storage spaces; (2) the role of storage in dealing with bereavement and grief; (3) and our ability to manage our possessions as we get older.The first major aim of this fellowship is to make specific contributions to the academic fields of cultural and social geography from the insights gained through my PhD research. A large proportion of this work will be in the form of writing three articles from my PhD for publication in well-regarded international journals. The other significant strand of this aim will involve further developing a strong foothold in academic networks through spending a month at the Morgan Centre for Everyday Life at the University of Manchester, hosting a one-day conference for other academics studying stigmatised aspects of domestic life, and presenting at two international conferences.Secondly, I will spend the equivalent of one-day per week of this fellowship undertaking new research interviewing older people who require the assistance of third sector decluttering services to clear space for necessary home improvements, downsize or move into residential care. Links have been made with Care and Repair Cymru who run the Attic Project across South Wales. Like self-storage, the growth in decluttering services can be linked to different contemporary practices of 'living with things', thereby building upon themes in my PhD research regarding the changing relationship between domestic materiality and home spaces over the lifecourse. It is hoped that this additional research will demonstrate the feasibility for a larger study in a subsequent postdoctoral grant application, which as well as additional interviews of third sector decluttering volunteers and beneficiaries would also examine those supplying and using 'paid for' services from, so called, professional declutterers.Finally, the time and resources available through this fellowship will be utilised to improve the impact of my research. Improving my skills in the dissemination of findings to non-academic audiences will constitute an important part of this, and I will attend training workshops to learn how to confidently engage with the media (ESRC media training), and how to write for a non-academic audience (The Conversation). Culminatively this training will mean I am better equipped to apply to the New Generation Thinkers scheme in October 2020, but in the meantime these skills would be utilised in the production of guest articles and blogs posts for The Conversation, Discard Studies and Self Storage Focus Magazine. The findings of the small-scale study will be fed back to Care and Repair Cymru, as well as being the basis for policy briefings to Age UK and POST. I will also present my findings at third sector and trade conferences - the Care and Repair Annual Conference in Cardiff and the European Self Storage Association Annual Conference, and attend the Association of Declutterers and Professional Organisers to make connections for my future research agenda.

作为一个社会，人们认为我们有更小的房子，但拥有比以往更多的财产;有更多的移动的生活方式和不确定的生活，但渴望稳定。拟议的奖学金的目的是通过发展证明我们在生命过程中与物质和家园的关系不断变化的方法，促进对这些当代现象的理解。基于我博士研究的新见解，该奖学金将进一步探讨和交流以下问题：（1）缺乏存储对象和存储空间的理论;（2）存储在处理丧亲和悲伤中的作用;（三）以及随着年龄的增长，我们管理财产的能力。该奖学金的第一个主要目标是为文化和社会的学术领域做出具体贡献。从我的博士研究中获得的见解中获得的地理知识。这项工作的很大一部分将是以写三篇我的博士论文的形式发表在知名的国际期刊上。这一目标的另一个重要方面将涉及通过在曼彻斯特大学的摩根日常生活中心度过一个月，为其他研究家庭生活中耻辱化方面的学者举办为期一天的会议，并在两个国际会议上发表演讲，进一步在学术网络中站稳脚跟。我将花相当于每周一天的时间进行新的研究，采访那些需要第三部门整理服务帮助的老年人，为必要的家庭改善腾出空间，缩小规模或转入养老院。我们已与南威尔士阁楼项目的运营商Care and Repair Cymru建立了联系。与自助仓储一样，整理服务的增长可以与不同的当代“与物共存”实践相联系，从而建立在我的博士研究中关于生活过程中家庭物质性和家庭空间之间不断变化的关系的主题之上。希望这项额外的研究将证明在随后的博士后资助申请中进行更大规模研究的可行性，以及对第三部门整理志愿者和受益者的额外采访，也将研究那些提供和使用所谓的专业整理者的“付费”服务的人。最后，通过这个奖学金可获得的时间和资源将用于提高我的研究的影响。提高我向非学术受众传播研究结果的技能将是其中的重要组成部分，我将参加培训研讨会，学习如何自信地与媒体接触（ESRC媒体培训），以及如何为非学术受众写作（对话）。最终，这项培训将意味着我更有能力在2020年10月申请新一代思想家计划，但与此同时，这些技能将用于为对话，丢弃研究和自我存储焦点杂志制作客座文章和博客文章。小规模研究的结果将反馈给护理和维修Cymru，以及作为政策简报的基础，年龄英国和邮政。我还将在第三部门和贸易会议上展示我的研究结果-卡迪夫的护理和维修年会和欧洲自助仓储协会年会，并参加整理者和专业组织者协会，为我未来的研究议程建立联系。

项目成果

'It became an anchor for stuff I really want to keep': the stabilising weight of self-storage when moving home and away

“它成为我真正想要保留的东西的锚”：搬家和搬家时自助储物的稳定重量

• DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2020.1843699
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Social & Cultural Geography
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Owen J

More than decluttering: Insights from Attic Project volunteers decluttering with older people

不仅仅是整理：阁楼项目志愿者与老年人一起整理杂物的见解

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Owen, J.

The Growing Trend of Living Small - A Critical Approach to Shrinking Domesticities

小生活的增长趋势——缩小家庭生活的关键方法

• DOI: 10.4324/9781003173052-8
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Owen J

Distancing material effects to reconcile loss: Sorting memories and emotion in self-storage

远离物质影响以调和损失：在自我存储中对记忆和情感进行分类

• DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100748
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Emotion, Space and Society
• 作者: Owen J

Editorial: Uncomfortable geographies

社论：不舒服的地理位置

• DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100871
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Emotion, Space and Society
• 作者: Owen J