Palais Royal House & Home

Definition of ’home and home’
This article makes an attempt to reinvigorate dialogue around the house–homelessness relationship by problematizing the binaries in current understandings and poses a different way of theorizing the interaction between the two ideas. Drawing on interviews with girls accessing homelessness companies in the North of England, dialogue interweaves ladies’s meanings of home and homelessness with the Freudian notion of the ‘unheimlich’. The ‘unheimlich’ captures the uncanny process of inversion whereby the familiar home sphere of the house turns into a frightening place; and a typical space of homelessness—the hostel—is considered home. The article seeks to contribute more adequate theoretical instruments for future analysis to better perceive and articulate the complexities of home and homelessness.
The neo-liberal economic policies, which had been instituted in Uganda within the late Nineteen Eighties, opened up the creative economic system centered on city artistry and cultural innovation. As a results of … Read More

