Abstract The domestic home is usually theorized as negotiated and structured space-time and as an emotional attachment to people and places. However, the increasing number of people living on their own brings about the question of how home is experienced, embodied, and narrated by solo-living individuals, especially in terms of ordering and stability under the flexible and fluid nature of some other realms, such as paid work. Following the affordance approach in studies of home, our aim is to integrate research on practices, materialities, and narratives of domestic homes. Our main question concerns how home is perceived, experienced, and performed by childless solo-living people and how they understand the stability of their dwelling—one of the main characteristics of home in social theory. To broaden this “traditional” concept of home, we build upon the emphasis on stability with the notion of flow, as presented by Deleuze and Guattari, along with the concept of boundary work, to describe the processes of delineation between these two from the level of mundane “doings.” Through in-depth interviews conducted using the go-along technique, combined with walking through the dwellings and some of the neighborhoods, we explore the ambivalence of stability, permanence, and temporariness, and the interconnection between materialities and meanings. The appropriation of space and time enables solo-living people to dwell comfortably, while also materializing and stabilizing the sometimes unwanted state of singleness or living alone. In contrast, the unfinished nature of some homes indicates a provisional state of being, pointing out that the current situation is still not satisfactory, being more open to change; however, it might lead to permanent living in unpleasant or even un-homey homes.

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“如何给当天的时钟上发条？” 独居现象和家的各种稳定性

摘要 家庭住宅通常被理论化为协商和结构化的时空，以及对人和地方的情感依恋。然而，越来越多的独居者带来了独居者如何体验、体现和叙述家的问题，尤其是在其他一些领域的灵活和流动性下的秩序和稳定性方面，例如作为有偿工作。遵循家庭研究中的可供性方法，我们的目标是整合对家庭住宅的实践、物质性和叙事的研究。我们的主要问题是关于没有孩子的独居者如何感知、体验和执行家，以及他们如何理解其住所的稳定性——这是社会理论中家的主要特征之一。为了拓宽这个“传统”的家概念，正如德勒兹和加塔里所提出的那样，我们通过流动的概念强调稳定性，以及边界工作的概念，从平凡的“行为”层面描述这两者之间的划分过程。通过使用随行技术进行的深度访谈，结合在住宅和一些街区中的穿行，我们探索了稳定性、持久性和暂时性的矛盾，以及物质和意义之间的相互联系。空间和时间的占用使独居的人能够舒适地居住，同时也实现和稳定了有时不想要的单身或独居状态。相比之下，一些房屋的未完工性质表明了一种暂时的存在状态，指出目前的情况仍然不尽如人意，对变化更加开放；然而，它可能导致永久居住在不愉快甚至不温馨的家中。