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Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance

Scullion, LC; Somerville, P; Brown, P; Morris, GJ

Authors

P Somerville

P Brown

GJ Morris



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.

Citation

Scullion, L., Somerville, P., Brown, P., & Morris, G. (2015). Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance. Health and Social Care in the Community, 23(4), 419-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12159

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 15, 2014
Online Publication Date Dec 1, 2014
Publication Date Jun 1, 2015
Deposit Date Jun 11, 2015
Publicly Available Date Jun 11, 2015
Journal Health & Social Care in the Community
Print ISSN 0966-0410
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 23
Issue 4
Pages 419-427
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12159
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12159
Related Public URLs http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2524
Additional Information Funders : Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC);Joseph Rowntree Foundation;Communities and Local Government;Department of Health and Tenant Services Authority;Homeless Link Economic and Social Research Council
Projects : Multiple Exclusion Homelessness (MEH) Research Initiative
Grant Number: RES-188-25-0016

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