1st Edition
The Complexities of Home in Social Work
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.
Chapter 1. Stolen homes
Amy Cleland and Carole Zufferey
Chatper 2. The complexities of home in social work
Carole Zufferey and Chris Horsell
Part I- Revisioning Home in Social Work
Chapter 3. Home, social work and intersectionality
Carole Zufferey
Chapter 4. Home, homeownership and housing policy
Chris Horsell
Chapter 5. The subjectivities of home
Carole Zufferey
Part II: Practice Considerations
Chapter 6. Without a house and home: homelessness
Carole Zufferey and Chris Horsell
Chapter 7. The safety of home: violence against women
Carole Zufferey
Chapter 8. Imagining family homes
Carole Zufferey
Chapter 9. Belonging, home and young people
Carole Zufferey and Deirdre Tedmanson
Chapter 10. Multiple, dislocated homes
Carole Zufferey and Kalpana Goel
Chapter 11. Classed mobilities, older generations and home
Kathryn Burgess, Carole Zufferey and Chris Horsell
Chapter 12. Disability, social work and home
Carole Zufferey and Chris Horsell
Chapter 13. Sexualities, social work and home
Carole Zufferey and Chris Horsell
Chapter 14. Revisioning home in social work
Carole Zufferey and Chris Horsell
Biography
Carole Zufferey is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of South Australia (Justice & Society). She has been researching home, housing, homelessness, social work and intersectionality since 2001. She has published one sole authored book Zufferey, C. (2017). Homelessness and Social Work: An Intersectional Approach, and two edited books with Routledge, Zufferey, C. & Yu, N. (eds) (2018). Faces of Homelessness in the Asia Pacific Region and Zufferey, C. & Buchanan, F. (eds) (2020). Intersections of mothering: Feminist accounts.
Christopher Horsell is a Lecturer in Social Work, University of South Australia (Justice & Society). He been researching, teaching and publishing in the areas of homelessness, social inclusion and disability for over ten years.
