Pleace, Nicholas orcid.org/0000-0002-2133-2667, O'Sullivan, Eoin and Johnson, Guy (2022) Making home or making do:a critical look at homemaking without a home. Housing Studies. pp. 315-331. ISSN 0267-3037
Abstract
This paper critically examines the concept of alternative forms of ‘homemaking’ among people without a settled home. The introductory section establishes the framework for the paper, providing an overview of homelessness and the homemaking literature. Strengths in the homemaking approach are identified, which reconceptualises homelessness as a human-centered phenomenon that can be understood as ‘resistance’ to societies that block accesses to mainstream housing for people who are (also) socially and economically marginalised. Homemaking moves beyond mainstream academic analyses which explore homelessness in terms of ‘sin’ (addiction and criminality), ‘sickness’ (poor health, especially poor mental health) and ‘systems’ (housing market failure and inadequate social protection and public health systems). The paper argues that, while important in refreshing our thinking about homelessness by offering a new, radical epistemology of housing, homemaking is limited by not contextualising the dwelling practices it seeks to explain, particularly in respect of how it defines ‘homelessness’ and also risks misinterpreting transitory behavioural adaptations as something deeper.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). |
Keywords: | Homelessness |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Research Groups (York) > Centre for Housing Policy (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2021 08:20 |
Last Modified: | 27 Dec 2024 00:18 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1929859 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02673037.2021.1929859 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:175752 |
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