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@article{838127, author = {Búriková, Zuzana}, article_location = {Oxford}, article_number = {2}, keywords = {au pair; home; paid domestic labour; ambivalence}, language = {eng}, issn = {1740-6315}, journal = {Home Cultures}, title = {The Embarrassment of Co-presence: Au pairs and Their Rooms}, volume = {3}, year = {2006} }
TY - JOUR ID - 838127 AU - Búriková, Zuzana PY - 2006 TI - The Embarrassment of Co-presence: Au pairs and Their Rooms JF - Home Cultures VL - 3 IS - 2 SP - 99-122 EP - 99-122 PB - Berg Publishers SN - 17406315 KW - au pair KW - home KW - paid domestic labour KW - ambivalence N2 - This article explores the ways Slovak au pairs living in London relate to their rooms through decoration and alternative aesthetic strategies. In this article the theme is neither the appropriation nor the refusal of personal spaces, but tahter an ambivalence that becomes evident through the detailed study of material culture. The source of this ambivalence lies both in the transcience of their residence and in the contradictions inherent in the au pair scheme, causing a relationship that I explore as the embarrassment of co-presence. The evidence suggests that au pairs find themselves torn between a desire to settle and appropriate a space and an equal desire not to be present or not to make an impact upon this space. This emerges not only from strategies of (non-) decoration, but also from au pairs exploitation of the parameters of tidiness and mess and alternative foci of self-expression such as the individual body. ER -
BÚRIKOVÁ, Zuzana. The Embarrassment of Co-presence: Au pairs and Their Rooms. \textit{Home Cultures}. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2006, vol.~3, No~2, p.~99-122, 23 pp. ISSN~1740-6315.
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