Changing homelessness services: revanchism, 'professionalisation' and resistance. (1st December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Scullion, Lisa; Somerville, Peter; Brown, Philip; Morris, Gareth
• Is Part Of: Health & social care in the community. Volume 23:Number 4(2015)
• Page Start: 419
• Page End: 427
• Publication Date: 2014-12-01
• Subjects: Public welfare -- Periodicals; Community health services -- Periodicals; Human services -- Periodicals; 362.1
• DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12159
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0966-0410

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="hsc12159-abs-0001"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>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 <italic>et al</italic>. 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.</p> </abstract>