Changing homelessness services: revanchism, 'professionalisation' and resistance.
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 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.
['Scullion|Lisa|L|', 'Somerville|Peter|P|', 'Brown|Philip|P|', 'Morris|Gareth|G|']
D003299:Cooperative Behavior D004739:England D006297:Health Services Accessibility D006703:Homeless Persons D006801:Humans D007407:Interviews as Topic D007857:Leadership D011209:Power, Psychological D012940:Social Problems D035862:Vulnerable Populations
homelessness collaboration communities of practice leadership ‘professionalisation’