Homeless identities
Enacted and Ascribed1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5609799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cameron Parsell (0000-0002-7289-896X, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 442-461 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01373.x |
| PMID | 21899522 |
| OpenAlex | W2163111335 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 32 |
Homelessness has been a perennial concern for sociologists. It is a confronting phenomenon that can challenge western notions of home, a discrete family unit and the ascetics and order of public space. To be without a home and to reside in public places illustrates both an intriguing way of living and some fundamental inadequacies in the functioning of society. Much homelessness research has had the consequence of isolating the 'homeless person' as distinct category or indeed type of individual. They are ascribed with homeless identities. The homeless identity is not simply presented as one dimensional and defining, but this imposed and ill-fitting identity is rarely informed by a close and long-term engagement with the individuals it is supposed to say something about. Drawing on a recent Australian ethnographic study with people literally without shelter, this article aims to contribute to understandings of people who are homeless by outlining some nuanced and diverse aspects of their identities. It argues that people can and do express agency in the way they enact elements of the self, and the experience of homelessness is simultaneously important and unimportant to understand this. Further, the article suggests that what is presumably known about the homeless identity is influenced by day-to-day lives that are on public display
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Ethnography · Identity (music · Phenomenon · Public space · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Employment as a Foreign Realm
Goals and outcomes of chaplaincy in varying outpatient, primary, and community care contexts
Care at a Distance
Reinventing the self through participatory art
Identity in transition
The Construction of the Homeless as a Discursive-Political Struggle
Framing homelessness
(Re)conceptualising the boundaries between home and homelessness
Negotiating Multiple Stigmas
Mad rant or “taking the piss?”
Exploring the ‘Spoiled’ and ‘Celebrated’ Identities of Young and Homeless Drug Users
Ian's Story
We are not like them’
Time, Place and Home
Rhizomatic intraviews in post-qualitative research
Youth homelessness and self identity
The Body Image of Women at a Homeless Service Center
The Uses of Running
Response to Ann Coleman
Utopian Thinking, Social Work, and Homelessness
Making city-bases
From squat to cottage
Homeless women, material objects and home (un)making
New Labour, Street Homelessness and Social Exclusion
Experiences of homeless men in an affluent town in South Africa
Early Gentrification and the Public Realm
Indigenous Rough Sleeping in Darwin, Australia
Exiting Unsheltered Homelessness and Sustaining Housing
Do We Have the Knowledge to Address Homelessness
Recognition, social work and homelessness
Embodying plurality
Living through continuous displacement
Visible Homelessness in a “Liveable City
Agency and clientship in public encounters
Queer/y/ing pathways through youth homelessness
Augmentations to the asset-based community development model to target power systems
Creating livable lives
Counter-Narratives of Structural Oppressions, Stigma and Resistance, and Reproductive and Sexual Health Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Living Absence
Thick skins in place, thick skins out of place
Older homeless women's identity negotiation
The performance of citizen's and organisational authority
A Bergsonian analysis of time in qualitative research
Urban hybrid space and the homeless
Charity and Shame
Homelessness, Empowerment and Self-reliance in Scotland and Ireland
Outcast London
Social pathology
Down on Their Luck
Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs
In Place/Out of Place
Mapping the Subject
Self-Identity and Everyday Life
Doing Ethnography
Enacting Identities
"I May be Homeless, But I'm Not Helpless"
Narratives of Identity
Homelessness and strategies of identity maintenance
Are Prisoners Clients
Homeless Careers
Identity and everyday experiences of homelessness
Homelessness and theory reconsidered
Homeless Women in Public Spaces
The Links between Begging and Rough Sleeping
Homeless Men and the Community
Single Homelessness as Social Exclusion
The Annihilation of Space by Law
The Emergence of the Homeless as a Public Problem
The crisis of 'identity' in high modernity
Distorting Tendencies in Research on the Homeless
You've Gotta Learn how to Play the Game
The Unaccommodated Woman
Cultural Identity and Global Process
Identity Work Among the Homeless
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |