The Homeless Person in Contemporary Society

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-60697-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 186 g

The homeless person is thought to be different. Whereas we get to determine our difference or sameness, the homeless person’s difference is imposed upon them and assumed to be known because of their homelessness. Exclusion from housing – either a commodity that should be accessed from the market or social provision – signifies the homeless person’s incapacities and failure to function in what are presented as unproblematic social systems.

Drawing on a program of research spanning ten years, this book provides an empirically grounded account of the lives and identities of people who are homeless. It illustrates that people with chronic experiences of homelessness have relatively predictable biographies characterised by exclusion, poverty, and trauma from early in life. Early experiences of exclusion continue to pervade the lives of people who are homeless in adulthood, yet they identify with family and normative values as a means of imaging aspirational futures.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parsell, Cameron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Homeless Person; Chapter 2: Conceptualising Identities, Human Agency, and Choice; Chapter 3: Identities and Being Homeles; Chapter 4: Choices; Chapter 5: The Service System and The Homeless Person; Conclusion; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cameron Parsell is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia.