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Freedom or dispossession?: imaginaries of small, mobile living in the film Nomadland

Harris, Ella, Nowicki, Mel and White, Tim (2023) Freedom or dispossession?: imaginaries of small, mobile living in the film Nomadland. In: Harris, Ella, Nowicki, Mel and White, Tim, (eds.) The growing trend of living small. Routledge. ISBN 9781003173052

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Abstract

In the 2020 film Nomadland, van living is discursively constructed as enabling freedom. The film follows characters who have opted out of conventional housing and move nomadically from place to place following work opportunities. The film was met with high acclaim, resonating with publics at a time when opting out of conventional housing models became increasingly common and increasingly present in collective imaginaries of the good life. In this chapter, we explore notions of freedom in Nomadland, in relation to themes of labour, mobility and ‘stuff’. We do so with a view to better understanding the contemporary imaginaries of freedom circulating around small and mobile housing in America and beyond. We argue that, although tiny living is narrativised as enabling increased freedom, it often reflects a diminishment of choice.

Item Type: Book Section
Official URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9...
Additional Information: © 2023 Routledge.
Divisions: LSE Cities
Sociology
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited: 28 Feb 2023 15:54
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 10:19
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/118292

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