In the space of home(less)ness. processes of creating and recreating of home by home(lessss) people in professional and research practice

• Authors: Ejneberg, Dorota

Abstracts

EN

The article shows how a scientist, an experiencedsocial and streetworker perceives the space resided by the homeless. Beginner researcher and experienced social worker tries to recreate the reality of the homeless people and describe their world. The article shows how the home(less) do not perceive themselves as entirely homeless as actually they have home which they can arrange at any given moment. The text presents the world of the homeless as the world of the “homeful” people; it attempts to reconstruct the fragments of their everyday life and rituals that they create within the space arranged into their “homefullness”. Thanks to this article, the Reader may, experience the life of homeless people from another perspective. They can see that every homeless person has their own space and defined limits. The article present two different perspectives of homelessness; one belonging to the homeless people and the other to the society. The world that is unreal to one person can be a real home to another.

Keywords

EN

homelessness; visual sociology. home; space; social work

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Praca Socjalna
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 32(3)
• Pages: 113-127

Dates

published

2020-01-03

Contributors

author

Ejneberg, Dorota