Edith England
Biographic Data
| ID | 337729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edith England |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edith |
| FAMILY NAME | England |
| SIGNATURE | ENGLAND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9894-8323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Homelessness is a queer experience.’: Utopianism and mutual aid as survival strategies for homeless trans people
Trans people are at considerably elevated risk of homelessness, yet services poorly meet their needs. I explore how community support, anchored in queer praxis and concrete utopian thinking enables trans people to survive homelessness. Drawing upon interviews with 35 trans people who have recently experienced homelessness in Wales, I explore how queer practices of mutual aid, contextualized by utopian possibility, engender community support for t…
Queer utopias of housing and homelessness
While there is evidence that discrimination against LGBTQ + people can cause homelessness, or worsen experiences, in this paper we consider law, policy and practice to tackle homelessness among LGBTQ + people. Contrasting the different legal systems across the UK nations of England, Scotland and Wales, we firstly consider how law, as structured around the norm of the heterosexual nuclear family, can be designed to discriminate against LGBTQ + peo…
Housing as a site of epistemological injustice: How Can Research Policy Advance Neurodivergent Inclusion
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: You can promise the world
Cruel Optimism' (Berlant, 2011) sustains neoliberalism by promising freedom and autonomy through adherence to and performance of competitive behaviours. As Brown (2003) observes, neoliberalism is a discourse which operates, not through repression or restriction, but through promising self-fulfilment and happiness. The role of emotion-management in poverty governance has been widely acknowledged. However, this has focused on cultivation of populat…
It Matters How They See You’: ‘Maternal Activation’ As a Strategy to Navigate Contradictory Discourses of Motherhood and Neoliberal Activism in the Welsh Homelessness System
Despite increasing attention to the importance of gender as an analytic to understanding neoliberal welfare reform, little attention has been paid to how motherhood operates to structure experiences. We propose the term ‘maternal activation’ to describe how homeless mothers as a group are subject to, and yet repurpose and resist, specific forms of social control characterising neoliberal paternalistic welfare structures. Drawing on a Critical Dis…
A typology of multiple exclusion homelessness
Quantitative exploration of sub-groups of people experiencing homelessness facing similar challenges, or multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH), is limited in Great Britain—as is discussion of what these groupings mean for policy and practice. Through secondary analysis of survey data from a study of single people experiencing homelessness in England, Scotland, and Wales, this paper aims to advance understanding of MEH. Using Latent Class Analysis…
It's Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service
Trans people1 - those whose gender identity does not match that assigned to them at birth - are at considerably elevated risk of homelessness, reflecting their marginalized legal, bureaucratic and socio-economic status2. Recent substantial international expansion to the medico-legal rights afforded them operates in tension with cisnormative welfare structures. Based upon a Critical Discourse Analysis of interviews with 35 trans people with experi…
‘Show me you're trying, that's all…’: Exploring the discursive impact of punishments and incentives in the Welsh homelessness system as ‘controlled conditionalities’
Discussion around sanctions within the welfare state has been largely framed within a Wacquantian understanding of punitive modes of governance, neglecting the discursive life of conditionality as a source of normative social control. I use a Critical Discourse Analysis of extended interviews with 98 actors within the Welsh homelessness system to propose that conditionality operates through sanctions to further an agenda of creating a context res…
Housing rights, homelessness prevention and a paradox of bureaucracy
In most nations homelessness remains a major injustice. A key response in Wales has been the introduction of a pioneering justiciable right to homelessness prevention and relief assistance. This paper explores the complexities of the new welfare bureaucracy this has created. We explore whether these housing rights invoke a paradox, whereby the positive impacts for citizens are accompanied by distancing and exclusion. The study reveals both a face…
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: They're not just numbers to me, I do actually care
Frontline workers in welfare systems are often understood as an 'uncaring' group, with their affective labour co-opted and reframed in terms of systemic efficiency. Yet they also operate at the frontlines of neoliberal paternalism, their work structured by encounters with extreme hardship, required to address this through 'pedagogical interventions' aimed at instilling a competitive, individualistic 'self-care' mindset in applicants. Approaching …
‘You’re having us on … that’s what it felt like.’: Frontline Workers Navigating the Introduction of Moral Commitments to Domestic Abuse Support within a Statutory Homelessness System
That domestic abuse is a human rights infringement has become recognised at policy, practice, and legislative level globally. Homelessness services are critical in averting and mitigating harm to those who have experienced domestic abuse. The British homelessness system achieves this, in part, through offering a legal right to housing in some circumstances. The Housing (Wales) Act 2014 integrates a human-rights based understanding of domestic abu…
This is how it works here’: The spatial deprioritisation of trans people within homelessness services in Wales
Access to physically, psychologically, and emotionally safe spaces is of critical importance for those experiencing the stress and stigmatisation of homelessness. Nightshelters, hostels and day centres provide material resources and respite from dangerous, stigmatising, public space. Yet these spaces also reinscribe a binarised, essentialist understanding of gender by selectively permitting hegemonic masculine behaviours. Structural and economic …
Homelessness is a queer experience.’: Utopianism and mutual aid as survival strategies for homeless trans people
Trans people are at considerably elevated risk of homelessness, yet services poorly meet their needs. I explore how community support, anchored in queer praxis and concrete utopian thinking enables trans people to survive homelessness. Drawing upon interviews with 35 trans people who have recently experienced homelessness in Wales, I explore how queer practices of mutual aid, contextualized by utopian possibility, engender community support for t…
Housing rights, homelessness prevention and a paradox of bureaucracy
In most nations homelessness remains a major injustice. A key response in Wales has been the introduction of a pioneering justiciable right to homelessness prevention and relief assistance. This paper explores the complexities of the new welfare bureaucracy this has created. We explore whether these housing rights invoke a paradox, whereby the positive impacts for citizens are accompanied by distancing and exclusion. The study reveals both a face…
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: They're not just numbers to me, I do actually care
Frontline workers in welfare systems are often understood as an 'uncaring' group, with their affective labour co-opted and reframed in terms of systemic efficiency. Yet they also operate at the frontlines of neoliberal paternalism, their work structured by encounters with extreme hardship, required to address this through 'pedagogical interventions' aimed at instilling a competitive, individualistic 'self-care' mindset in applicants. Approaching …
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: You can promise the world
Cruel Optimism' (Berlant, 2011) sustains neoliberalism by promising freedom and autonomy through adherence to and performance of competitive behaviours. As Brown (2003) observes, neoliberalism is a discourse which operates, not through repression or restriction, but through promising self-fulfilment and happiness. The role of emotion-management in poverty governance has been widely acknowledged. However, this has focused on cultivation of populat…
This is how it works here’: The spatial deprioritisation of trans people within homelessness services in Wales
Access to physically, psychologically, and emotionally safe spaces is of critical importance for those experiencing the stress and stigmatisation of homelessness. Nightshelters, hostels and day centres provide material resources and respite from dangerous, stigmatising, public space. Yet these spaces also reinscribe a binarised, essentialist understanding of gender by selectively permitting hegemonic masculine behaviours. Structural and economic …
It's Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service
Trans people1 - those whose gender identity does not match that assigned to them at birth - are at considerably elevated risk of homelessness, reflecting their marginalized legal, bureaucratic and socio-economic status2. Recent substantial international expansion to the medico-legal rights afforded them operates in tension with cisnormative welfare structures. Based upon a Critical Discourse Analysis of interviews with 35 trans people with experi…
Queer utopias of housing and homelessness
While there is evidence that discrimination against LGBTQ + people can cause homelessness, or worsen experiences, in this paper we consider law, policy and practice to tackle homelessness among LGBTQ + people. Contrasting the different legal systems across the UK nations of England, Scotland and Wales, we firstly consider how law, as structured around the norm of the heterosexual nuclear family, can be designed to discriminate against LGBTQ + peo…
It Matters How They See You’: ‘Maternal Activation’ As a Strategy to Navigate Contradictory Discourses of Motherhood and Neoliberal Activism in the Welsh Homelessness System
Despite increasing attention to the importance of gender as an analytic to understanding neoliberal welfare reform, little attention has been paid to how motherhood operates to structure experiences. We propose the term ‘maternal activation’ to describe how homeless mothers as a group are subject to, and yet repurpose and resist, specific forms of social control characterising neoliberal paternalistic welfare structures. Drawing on a Critical Dis…
This is how it works here’: The spatial deprioritisation of trans people within homelessness services in Wales
Access to physically, psychologically, and emotionally safe spaces is of critical importance for those experiencing the stress and stigmatisation of homelessness. Nightshelters, hostels and day centres provide material resources and respite from dangerous, stigmatising, public space. Yet these spaces also reinscribe a binarised, essentialist understanding of gender by selectively permitting hegemonic masculine behaviours. Structural and economic …
‘You’re having us on … that’s what it felt like.’: Frontline Workers Navigating the Introduction of Moral Commitments to Domestic Abuse Support within a Statutory Homelessness System
That domestic abuse is a human rights infringement has become recognised at policy, practice, and legislative level globally. Homelessness services are critical in averting and mitigating harm to those who have experienced domestic abuse. The British homelessness system achieves this, in part, through offering a legal right to housing in some circumstances. The Housing (Wales) Act 2014 integrates a human-rights based understanding of domestic abu…
‘Show me you're trying, that's all…’: Exploring the discursive impact of punishments and incentives in the Welsh homelessness system as ‘controlled conditionalities’
Discussion around sanctions within the welfare state has been largely framed within a Wacquantian understanding of punitive modes of governance, neglecting the discursive life of conditionality as a source of normative social control. I use a Critical Discourse Analysis of extended interviews with 98 actors within the Welsh homelessness system to propose that conditionality operates through sanctions to further an agenda of creating a context res…
Housing rights, homelessness prevention and a paradox of bureaucracy
In most nations homelessness remains a major injustice. A key response in Wales has been the introduction of a pioneering justiciable right to homelessness prevention and relief assistance. This paper explores the complexities of the new welfare bureaucracy this has created. We explore whether these housing rights invoke a paradox, whereby the positive impacts for citizens are accompanied by distancing and exclusion. The study reveals both a face…
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: They're not just numbers to me, I do actually care
Frontline workers in welfare systems are often understood as an 'uncaring' group, with their affective labour co-opted and reframed in terms of systemic efficiency. Yet they also operate at the frontlines of neoliberal paternalism, their work structured by encounters with extreme hardship, required to address this through 'pedagogical interventions' aimed at instilling a competitive, individualistic 'self-care' mindset in applicants. Approaching …
It Matters How They See You’: ‘Maternal Activation’ As a Strategy to Navigate Contradictory Discourses of Motherhood and Neoliberal Activism in the Welsh Homelessness System
Despite increasing attention to the importance of gender as an analytic to understanding neoliberal welfare reform, little attention has been paid to how motherhood operates to structure experiences. We propose the term ‘maternal activation’ to describe how homeless mothers as a group are subject to, and yet repurpose and resist, specific forms of social control characterising neoliberal paternalistic welfare structures. Drawing on a Critical Dis…
A typology of multiple exclusion homelessness
Quantitative exploration of sub-groups of people experiencing homelessness facing similar challenges, or multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH), is limited in Great Britain—as is discussion of what these groupings mean for policy and practice. Through secondary analysis of survey data from a study of single people experiencing homelessness in England, Scotland, and Wales, this paper aims to advance understanding of MEH. Using Latent Class Analysis…
It's Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service
Trans people1 - those whose gender identity does not match that assigned to them at birth - are at considerably elevated risk of homelessness, reflecting their marginalized legal, bureaucratic and socio-economic status2. Recent substantial international expansion to the medico-legal rights afforded them operates in tension with cisnormative welfare structures. Based upon a Critical Discourse Analysis of interviews with 35 trans people with experi…
Homelessness is a queer experience.’: Utopianism and mutual aid as survival strategies for homeless trans people
Trans people are at considerably elevated risk of homelessness, yet services poorly meet their needs. I explore how community support, anchored in queer praxis and concrete utopian thinking enables trans people to survive homelessness. Drawing upon interviews with 35 trans people who have recently experienced homelessness in Wales, I explore how queer practices of mutual aid, contextualized by utopian possibility, engender community support for t…
Queer utopias of housing and homelessness
While there is evidence that discrimination against LGBTQ + people can cause homelessness, or worsen experiences, in this paper we consider law, policy and practice to tackle homelessness among LGBTQ + people. Contrasting the different legal systems across the UK nations of England, Scotland and Wales, we firstly consider how law, as structured around the norm of the heterosexual nuclear family, can be designed to discriminate against LGBTQ + peo…
Housing as a site of epistemological injustice: How Can Research Policy Advance Neurodivergent Inclusion
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: You can promise the world
Cruel Optimism' (Berlant, 2011) sustains neoliberalism by promising freedom and autonomy through adherence to and performance of competitive behaviours. As Brown (2003) observes, neoliberalism is a discourse which operates, not through repression or restriction, but through promising self-fulfilment and happiness. The role of emotion-management in poverty governance has been widely acknowledged. However, this has focused on cultivation of populat…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works)