Part I

The chapter presents a relational and critical reading of the notion of home. It does so by relying on geographical and feminist literatures, which are intersected with a processual and vitalist ontology of the social. The notion of bordering is presented as a methodological tool to unpack the tensioned becoming of home and homelessness.

The chapter discusses two fundamental conceptual devices put forward in the book: the notions of expulsion and extraction. These are considered the essential functions of home, which work as a form of refrain, or ritornello, across home(lessness) to (re)produce its affective and political economy. Exemplifications around quintessential homely diagrams working through expulsion and extraction are discussed in anthropocentrism, racialization , heteronormalization, and capitalization processes.