Naslov
Meanings of home among homeless people

Autori
Šikić Mićanović, Lynette

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
Utopias Realities Heritages: Ethnographies for the 21st Century / - Zagreb, 2015

Skup
Utopias Realities Heritages: Ethnographies for the 21st Century / HOME002 Scales of home in today’s Europe

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 21.06.2015. - 25.06.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
concept of home; multidimensionality; experiences and understandings; homelessness

Sažetak
Meanings of home among homeless people Research has shown that home is a complex, multidimensional and intangible concept that can refer to a place, space, feelings, relationships, identities, practices or states of being. Studies have also shown that one can learn a great deal about what home signifies by studying what this concept means for someone that has been deprived or lacks home. The aim of this paper is to present how the notion of home is understood, defined and described by homeless people in Croatia. As home operates at a variety of overlapping scales, this paper shows how family circumstances, socio- economic conditions and power dynamics in the present, past and future inform the ways in which people understand the concept of home. Special focus will be on the impacts of institutionalised/foster care as well as violence and abuse throughout their life course trajectories. Findings show that socially marginalised homeless people experience home in very different ways from how it is conventionally portrayed. Ethnographic data also reveals that homeless women and men tend to have different notions and understandings of home.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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