This article considers how individuals who experience continuous displacement from housing manage the ‘spoiled identity’ of homelessness. The research draws on in-depth, biographical interviews with 39 individuals living in Oxford, a high-cost UK city. All had experienced forms of homelessness in the previous three years. Building on critical debates around experiences of precarity in urban geography, the article explores how individuals construct and maintain a sense of identity whilst living precarious lives. Participants were constantly confronted with their own precarity in pressured housing markets, which fostered their displacement, and then undermined re-entry into stable housing. Yet, participants described their attempts to maintai...
An unnamed shift has occurred in geographies of eviction. While past research focused on the causes ...
Urbanites worldwide fight for their right to housing and the city in ways that encompass what Wester...
Drawing on the results of a qualitative longitudinal analysis of the experiences of homeless people ...
Within the news media and literature, alike, people experiencing homelessness are often categorised ...
This PhD study focuses on understanding formerly homeless people’s attitudes to self, their home and...
Urban scholars have traditionally associated displacement in cities of the global North with gentrif...
Urban scholars have traditionally associated displacement in cities of the global North with gentrif...
This article draws on repeated, biographical interviews with 18 households to explore how people con...
Previous analyses of homelessness have been accused of lacking theoretical and conceptual clarity. ...
The UK government’s Everyone In scheme, announced in March 2020, required local authorities to tempo...
This thesis addresses the oft-neglected experiences of ‘homeless’ women. It explores how homelessnes...
This paper explores the condition of 'homelessness' as self-represented by a particular category of ...
Abstract People who are homeless are portrayed to be a distinct type of ‘homeless person’. Within sc...
Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2005.This study aims to explore the lives an...
© 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. Abstract: This article examines the narratives ...
An unnamed shift has occurred in geographies of eviction. While past research focused on the causes ...
Urbanites worldwide fight for their right to housing and the city in ways that encompass what Wester...
Drawing on the results of a qualitative longitudinal analysis of the experiences of homeless people ...
Within the news media and literature, alike, people experiencing homelessness are often categorised ...
This PhD study focuses on understanding formerly homeless people’s attitudes to self, their home and...
Urban scholars have traditionally associated displacement in cities of the global North with gentrif...
Urban scholars have traditionally associated displacement in cities of the global North with gentrif...
This article draws on repeated, biographical interviews with 18 households to explore how people con...
Previous analyses of homelessness have been accused of lacking theoretical and conceptual clarity. ...
The UK government’s Everyone In scheme, announced in March 2020, required local authorities to tempo...
This thesis addresses the oft-neglected experiences of ‘homeless’ women. It explores how homelessnes...
This paper explores the condition of 'homelessness' as self-represented by a particular category of ...
Abstract People who are homeless are portrayed to be a distinct type of ‘homeless person’. Within sc...
Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2005.This study aims to explore the lives an...
© 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. Abstract: This article examines the narratives ...
An unnamed shift has occurred in geographies of eviction. While past research focused on the causes ...
Urbanites worldwide fight for their right to housing and the city in ways that encompass what Wester...
Drawing on the results of a qualitative longitudinal analysis of the experiences of homeless people ...