Abstract
This paper argues that the increasing international salience of homelessness can be partially explained by reference to the revanchist thesis (involving processes of coerced exclusion and abjection), but the situation on the ground is more complex. It reports on interviews with 18 representatives of 11 homelessness service providers in one city in England. As Cloke et al. found, these providers tended to be either larger, more 'professional', 'insider' services or smaller, more 'amateur', 'outsider' services. However, this does not mean that the former were necessarily more revanchist and the latter less so. Rather, the actions of both types of organisation could, in some cases, be construed as both advancing and counteracting a revanchist project.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 419-427 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Health and Social Care in the Community |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 1 Dec 2014 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
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Profiles
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Philip Brown
- School of Human and Health Sciences - Professor of Housing and Communities
- Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences
- Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research - Member
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