The management of personal space in the home

这项研究旨在关注家庭中个人空间的管理。通过突出个人空间作为一种行为过程和体验的观点，结合社会、物质、政治和心理，本研究试图推进现有的跨学科研究，这些研究将个人空间简化为大脑的静态产物。其目的是强调自我的中介和社会在空间个性化中的作用。为了理解个人如何以及为什么要使周围的空间个性化，这项研究对塑造家庭空间体验的话语和实践感兴趣。这需要探索更广泛的社会趋势，这些趋势已经在典型的家庭公共空间中获得了一种超个人主义的形式：退回到家庭工作实践中；自我照顾叙事的重新出现；以及通过屏幕的社会性的兴起。在此过程中，本研究的理论立场强调与权力、反身性和社会建构主义的联系，因为这为理解动因提供了一个语用基础。

This research seeks to attend to the management of personal space in the home. In foregrounding a perspective of personal space as a performative process and experience that incorporates the social, the material, the political, and the psychological, this research seeks to advance existing interdisciplinary studies that reduce personal space to a static product of the brain. The purpose is to underline the agency of the self, and the role of society, in the personalisation of space. To understand how and why individuals work to personalise their surrounding space, this research takes interest in the discourses and practices that shape spatial experience in the home. This entails an exploration of broader societal trends that have acquired a hyper-individualist form within the typically communal space of the home: the retreat into domestic working practices; the re-emergence of self-care narratives; and the rise of sociality through screens. In doing so, the theoretical position of this research places emphasis on the connection to power, reflexivity, and social constructionism, as this provides a pragmatic foundation for understanding agency.