Blurred borders. Negotiating Copresence in the Family Home Through Spatio-Temporal Strategies for Increased Adult Well-Being

Borders between the domestic domains of work, family and restoration, are essential to adult well-being. This article interrogates the blurring of these borders by post-pandemic, reshaped relations between adults and children in domestic space. Adult spaces can alleviate the negative well-being effe...

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Published in:Home cultures Vol. 21; no. 2-3; pp. 159 - 183
Main Authors: Costa Santos, Sandra, Parnell, Rosie, Abo Kanon, Husam, Pattinson, Emily, Pitsikali, Alkistis, Sarhan, Heba
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Abingdon Routledge 01.09.2024
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:
adult space
Adults
Alleviation
Appropriation
Borders
Children
Containment
copresence
Covid-19 lockdown
domestic borders
Exile
Families & family life
family home
Geography
Housing
Negotiation
Pandemics
Parent-child relations
Qualitative research
Tactics
Time
Well being
ISSN:1740-6315, 1751-7427
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Summary:Borders between the domestic domains of work, family and restoration, are essential to adult well-being. This article interrogates the blurring of these borders by post-pandemic, reshaped relations between adults and children in domestic space. Adult spaces can alleviate the negative well-being effects of blurred borders, but inadequate consideration of intrafamilial separation in contemporary housing forces parents to negotiate adult-child copresence, or 'presence to one another.' Drawing on time-geography, this article explores adult spaces of avoidance in the family home to negotiate negative copresence and maintain domestic borders. Qualitative analysis of 45 in-depth interviews shows adults in England and Scotland (UK) enacting spatio-temporal tactics -appropriation, exclusion, exile and containment- to negotiate negatively perceived copresence and alleviate its detrimental well-being impacts. Understood as a key component of togetherness, the article demonstrates the relationship between copresence and the physical space of the house, highlighting implications of negatively perceived copresence for housing design.
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ISSN:1740-6315
1751-7427
DOI:10.1080/17406315.2025.2454179