-Tactics and Concepts for Highly Mobile People

Feeling at home is established by keeping the routines on track even though there is
change. In that way the predictable life (Vacher, 2011) is what generates the sense of
home. It is also embodied when keeping the body on a schedule of the primary
attachment or maintaining a bodily routine and in that way feeling at home is experienced
through embodiment.
Rythming is either experienced by keeping track of a specific time zone or repeating the
routines over and over again even though in a different place than where the rhythm is
usually performed.
5.3.8. Summary
The study expands the homing tactic and splits it into 7 different sub categories. These
are not to be seen isolated, as people can carry out more than one tactic to create a home
feeling. They might then perform a different tactic at the same time. From the study it
seems that choice of the specific tactics or combinations of these depend on the concrete
opportunities of the situation as well as the lifestyle, preferences and personality of the
people adopting them. Wayne for instance bubbles intensively via his mobile phone in his
very mobile everyday life. He is most of the time rather disconnected to the local
situation, except from the physical meetings he holds. Whereas Lisa actively differentiates
between the places she stays in delving at the specific values of the local situation. The
summerhouse family makes use of what seems like contradicting tactics at the same time:
They double their domestic appliances in order to be able to focus on differentiating in all
other areas.
The tactics are experienced as homing in the following way:
Territorializing is experienced by marking a territory and keeping it empty from others. It
is also practiced as a way of making the place personal with pictures or flowers. The home
feeling provided through this tactic is closely related to transforming from space to place
through personalization, control, creating an atmosphere and feeling private and secure.
Bubbling is a way of keeping the external world out by making a small sphere around the
body. Portable technologies are used to facilitate the bubbling tactic, but it can also be
achieved through isolation and detaching from the context. The home feeling that is
experienced through bubbling is a private place that you have control of by excluding the
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