Place and Identity - The Performance of Home

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Richardson, Joanna Richardson, Joanna (De Montfort University Richardson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780815352044
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-5204-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Routledge Focus on Housing and Philosophy; Routledge Focus on Housing and Philosophy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; PHILOSOPHY / Social, MEDICAL / Public Health, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness