This article examines the home as a critical site through which climate change is experienced, negotiated, and responded to in everyday life. Focusing on the home is essential to understanding climate change, as many of its effects unfold through mundane practices, social relations, and emotional attachments that remain less visible when focusing on public sites. Drawing on a qualitative and feminist approach, the study combines Climate Relief Maps and focus group discussions to explore lived experiences of climate change in Catalonia, Spain, based on a sample of 87 participants. The findings show that climate change permeates domestic life through tangible and intangible changes, including in household economies, domestic labor, and relationships with surrounding environments. They also reveal the home as not only a site of vulnerability but also a space of agency expressed through everyday adaptation and mitigation practices. Intersectional and emotional perspectives further illustrate the complexity of these domestic climate experiences, which are shaped differently by gender, age, economic situation, and place of residence, and evoke diverse psychological responses. Overall, this study adds to existing literature by offering a more nuanced understanding of climate change in domestic spaces and underscores the need to politicize the home in research and policy debates to advance climate justice.
Mar Coll-Planell (Tue,) studied this question.