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Changing homelessness services: revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance
Author(s) -
Scullion Lisa,
Somerville Peter,
Brown Philip,
Morris Gareth
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
health and social care in the community
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.984
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1365-2524
pISSN - 0966-0410
DOI - 10.1111/hsc.12159
Subject(s) - insider , salience (neuroscience) , resistance (ecology) , service provider , amateur , sociology , ambivalence , public relations , service (business) , social psychology , psychology , political science , criminology , law , business , ecology , marketing , cognitive psychology , biology
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 E ngland. 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.