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The starting point for this chapter is a type of building: one that contains a hospitality establishment. The focus is on a particular form of such establishments — the family-run hotel, boarding house, or public house. Its distinctiveness comes not only from the commercial use to which the building is put, but the fact that it also serves as the home for the families who run the business. As such, these places have been labelled ‘Commercial Homes’ by (Lynch, 2005) and this phrase will be used throughout this chapter to discuss these dual-purpose locations.
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Seymour, J. (2015). The Transgressive Potential of Families in Commercial Homes. In: Casey, E., Taylor, Y. (eds) Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137429087_6
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