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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.39,Issue7,P.1018-1040

语言

英文

关键字

Singles; one-person households; young people; sharing; individualisation; ONE-PERSON HOUSEHOLDS; YOUNG-PEOPLE; HOME; INDIVIDUALIZATION; TRANSITION; ADULTHOOD; MODERNITY; MARKET; TOKYO

作者单位

[Ronald, Richard; Druta, Oana] Univ Amsterdam, Ctr Urban Studies, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, NL-1018 VW Amsterdam, Netherlands. [Godzik, Maren] Fukuoka Univ, Fac Humanities, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan. Ronald, R (reprint author), Univ Amsterdam, Ctr Urban Studies, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, NL-1018 VW Amsterdam, Netherlands. E-Mail: r.ronald@uva.nl

摘要

In comparison to other advanced economies, the rise of people living alone in Japan has been late and rapid, with singletons now accounting for almost half of all households in major cities. The normative and structural frameworks surrounding standard family-household formation, however, remain formidable, reducing life-course opportunities for non-family formers. This paper considers the household and housing pathways being negotiated by younger-adults living independently. In addition to various secondary data sources, we draw on qualitative interviews with 35 individuals from 28 Tokyo households in addressing manifestations of, and resistance to, atomisation and individualisation in the Japanese context. Our analysis focuses on meanings and practices of homemaking among renters and buyers in the growing sector of single-person dwellings, as well as the recent emergence of commercial shared housing . This analysis provides a contrast to discourses surrounding the singles boom and the growing appeal of living alone in Western cities.