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Homelessness and the Meaning of Home: Rooflessness or Rootlessness?

Homelessness and the Meaning of Home: Rooflessness or Rootlessness? This paper has several objectives. These are: (1) to analyse the meaning of homelessness in the light of recent contributions on the meaning of home; (2) to criticize some current perspectives on homelessness as a social problem; (3) to identify and explore a number of different dimensions of the meaning of home and homelessness; (4) to reassess the evidence on the context of home and homelessness, and re-examine the meaning of homelessness in the light of that reassessed evidence; and ( 5 ) to explain the political meaning of homelessness as expressed in official definitions, legislation and state provision (or lack of it). The meaning of home In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the meaning of home as a subject for empirical investigation and theoretical exploration - see, for example, Duncan (1981), Watson and Austerberry (1986), Marshall et al. (1988), Saunders and Williams (1988), Saunders (1989; 1990), Dickens (1989; 1990), Gurney (1990). There is deep disagreement among these authors, however, as to how ‘home’ is to be defined and analysed, how research is to proceed, and how the findings of research are to be interpreted. Gurney goes furthest in seeing home as an ideological http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Wiley

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Copyright © 1992 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0309-1317
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1468-2427
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10.1111/j.1468-2427.1992.tb00194.x
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Abstract

This paper has several objectives. These are: (1) to analyse the meaning of homelessness in the light of recent contributions on the meaning of home; (2) to criticize some current perspectives on homelessness as a social problem; (3) to identify and explore a number of different dimensions of the meaning of home and homelessness; (4) to reassess the evidence on the context of home and homelessness, and re-examine the meaning of homelessness in the light of that reassessed evidence; and ( 5 ) to explain the political meaning of homelessness as expressed in official definitions, legislation and state provision (or lack of it). The meaning of home In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the meaning of home as a subject for empirical investigation and theoretical exploration - see, for example, Duncan (1981), Watson and Austerberry (1986), Marshall et al. (1988), Saunders and Williams (1988), Saunders (1989; 1990), Dickens (1989; 1990), Gurney (1990). There is deep disagreement among these authors, however, as to how ‘home’ is to be defined and analysed, how research is to proceed, and how the findings of research are to be interpreted. Gurney goes furthest in seeing home as an ideological

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research – Wiley

Published: Dec 1, 1992

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