Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance

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

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