Home and Housing as Spatialized Trust

This chapter aims to bring the study of trust and scholarship on home into conversation. After the philosophies on space and place had been misused to make nationalistic claims to territory in the first half of the twentieth century, home only became a topic of interest again after the spatial turn in the social sciences and humanities. Since then, there have been many studies on home in geography, building on a variety of approaches, ranging from the study of atmospheresAtmosphere in phenomenology over specific home-makingHomehome-making practices to uncovering the patriarchal and heteronormative structures within the home. In a critical examination of home, the aim is to establish home as a complex and often ambivalent concept. After outlining the phenomenological tradition based on Heidegger, the practice-oriented tradition, and the feminist critique of home, this chapter concludes with a reinterpretation of home as a trust relationshipTrusttrust relations / relationship. This last section will not only highlight the relational understanding of home but also make the case that a profound understanding of home as a space of trust is necessary to understand the impact of the housing crisis on individuals, communities, and urban societiesUrbanurban society.