Naming House and Home
This article attempts to reinvigorate discussion around the residence–homelessness relationship by problematizing the binaries in present understandings and poses a different method of theorizing the interplay between the two ideas. Drawing on interviews with girls accessing homelessness services within the North of England, dialogue interweaves girls’s meanings of residence and homelessness with the Freudian notion of the ‘unheimlich’. The ‘unheimlich’ captures the uncanny strategy of inversion whereby the familiar home sphere of the home turns into a frightening place; and a typical house of homelessness—the hostel—is considered home. The article seeks to contribute more adequate theoretical tools for future analysis to raised understand and articulate the complexities of residence and homelessness.
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