Place and Identity: The Performance of Home

ISBN-13: 9781032178578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 124 str.

UK) Richardson Joanna (De Montfort University

Opis

This book will be essential reading for postgraduate students whose interest is in housing and social policy, as well as appealing to those working in the areas of implementing and changing policy within government and professional spaces.

Spis treści

Foreword

1 Performing home: an introduction

2 Feeling at home: intersections of place and identity

3 Protecting home: negotiating conflict

4 Home screen: a public or private performance?

5 Precarious home: the challenge of homelessness

6 Home and away: beyond bricks and mortar

7 Home is in the heart: authentic self and identity

8 Going home: conclusions

References

Index

 

O autorze

Joanna Richardson is Professor of Housing and Social Research at De Montfort University. She has previously worked as a housing professional for a local authority and a housing association as well as the Chartered Institute of Housing.