Full Description
Home is a complex and multifaceted concept. This book revisions how 'home' is used in social work literature by showing how it is positioned as being discursively represented, materially experienced and embodied, and multiply imagined as symbolic and existential.
Drawing on multidisciplinary understandings of 'home' and intersectionality, it analyses the privileging and disadvantaging social policies and complex interactional practices that contribute to one's sense of home including homelessness, mobility and the politics and complexities of homeownership. Providing social workers with practice considerations for different areas of social work, this book analyses how to makes and build a sense of home and community belonging for a broad range of client groups.
It will be of interest to all academics and students of social work, sociology, public policy, housing policy, gender studies and human geography.
Contents
1.Stolen homes. 2.The complexities of home in social work. Part I: Revisioning Home in Social Work. 3.Home, social work and intersectionality. 4.Home, homeownership and housing policy. 5.The subjectivities of home. Part II: Practice Considerations. 6.Without a house and home: homelessness. 7.The safety of home: violence against women. 8.Imagining family homes. 9.Belonging, home and young people. 10.Multiple, dislocated homes. 11.Classed mobilities, older generations and home. 12.Disability, social work and home. 13.Sexualities, social work and home. 14.Revisioning home in social work
