1st Edition

The Complexities of Home in Social Work

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.