Wenn alles auf den Tisch kommt: Die Weltbeziehungen der Homesharer werden in der Küche verhandelt

The starting point of our contribution is the observation that property relations are linked to specific forms of our relationship to the world. In order to pursue the question of whether and how relationships to the world of subjects change when property relations are altered, we investigate whether irritations and changes in relationships to things, to social others, and to oneself can be observed in the practices and experiences of homesharing, and what form and direction these take. Our focus is on the empirically observable, always precarious, tentative, and temporary communalization processes that arise when sharing interpersonal space. Based on qualitative interviews with users of homesharing platforms, we show that the kitchen and situations of communal eating are central starting points for shaping communality and reconstruct three types of homesharers that oscillate between the patterns of professionalism and familiarity.