Home as riskscape : exploring technology enabled care
Abstract
The growth and spread of ubiquitous smart technology to deliver public health outcomes at home, and its relationship with risk, urgently requires greater scholarly attention, not least given COVID‐19. Theoretically informed by both critical geographies of home and risk scholarship, this paper uses data from interviews with professionals in Scotland designing and implementing technology enabled care (TEC) for current and future homes. It explores the organisation of risk in the context of TEC, and the importance of this in relation to home. Drawing on geographical writing on home, and the riskscape, I argue that the smart home is a contemporary manifestation of the riskscape with implications for ideas of intrusion and inequality, and the experience of home.
Citation
Reid , L 2021 , ' Home as riskscape : exploring technology enabled care ' , The Geographical Journal , vol. 187 , no. 2 , pp. 85-97 . https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12381
Publication
The Geographical Journal
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0016-7398Type
Journal article
Description
Funding: Royal Society of Edinburgh (Grant Number(s): 62651); Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (Grant Number(s): RIG008250).Collections
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