
Inside a Japanese Sharehouse
This book explores social change in Japan at the most intimate site of social interaction – the home – by providing a detailed ethnography of everyday life in a sharehouse. Sharehouses, which emerged in the 2007 ''sharehouse boom'', are a deliberate alternative to life in the family home and are considered an experimental space for the construction of new social identities.
Through a description o...
This book explores social change in Japan at the most intimate site of social interaction – the home – by providing a detailed ethnography of everyday life in a sharehouse. Sharehouses, which emerged in the 2007 ''sharehouse boom'', are a deliberate alternative to life in the family home and are considered an experimental space for the construction of new social identities.
Through a description o...