All hyped up and no place to go

Bell, David; Binnie, Jon; Cream, Julia; Valentine, Gill

doi:10.1080/09663699408721199

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“…Following Goffman (1959), the sense of self is intimately connected to the social, to how we are seen by others and made to be seen by others. Identity is not just something claimed by the individual but is dependent on an individual's identity being recognised or accepted by a wider community (Bell et al, 1994). The messages presented by discursive practices about homelessness will undoubtedly have discernible impacts on the development of self-concepts within the homeless population (Southard, 1997).…”

Section: Troubling Gender and Identitymentioning

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Homelessness and identity: a critical review of the literature and theory

Mccarthy¹

2013

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Within the news media and literature, alike, people experiencing homelessness are often categorised into various stereotypes revolving around their lack of abode. In such a practice a 'homeless identity' becomes the defining feature of a person's character. Very few theoretical studies have critically addressed this discursive construction and its implications. This paper contributes to the few existing debates around the 'homeless identity' by arguing that such constructions are binding and misguided. The paper takes insight from the many and varied theories of 'identity' -how different approaches have theorised it and what might be borrowed from them to (re)conceptualise the 'homeless identity'. After outlining several approaches to identity, the paper asks how someone experiencing homelessness might resist or challenge prescriptive identities and how the literature and research around homelessness might progress. It concludes that an intersectional approach will enrich a literature which tends to focus on a singular 'homeless identity'. Such an approach will address the intersection of lines of difference and recognise that the identity of any individual is multiple and fluid.

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Section: Troubling Gender and Identitymentioning

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Homelessness and identity: a critical review of the literature and theory

Mccarthy¹

2013

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“…As a counterhegemonic cultural event, Belfast Pride effectively seeks to subvert power by disputing the heteronormative dominance of public space. This stands in sharp contrast to the way in which public spaces are routinely expected to be "authentically heterosexual" (Bell et al 1994). Indeed, institutional forms of heterosexism and related social sanctions regulate the sexual behavior of people in most public spaces (Duggan 2016:1), operating through a discursive regime that portrays heterosexuality positively and homosexuality negatively (Kitchin and Lysaght 2003:491).…”

Section: Queering Space In Belfastmentioning

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Rainbows of Resistance: LGBTQ Pride Parades Contesting Space in Post-Conflict Belfast

Drissel

2017

Cult. Unbound

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The article seeks to demonstrate how marchers in the annual LGBTQ Pride Parade strategically contest and reclaim heteronormative public spaces in Belfast, Northern Ireland. There is an exploration of participants adapting transnational symbolic representations and discourses to the distinct national-local cultural milieu in which they are scripted and performed. The discursive frames, symbols, and performances of Belfast Pride are compared to those of sectarian parades in the city. The subaltern spatial performances and symbolic representations of Belfast Pride are depicted as confronting a universalized set of heteronormative discourses involving sexuality and gender identity, while at the same time contesting a particularized set of dominant local-national discourses related to both ethnonational sectarianism and religious fundamentalism in Northern Ireland.

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“…Arguably most attention has been paid to gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity (Gregson and G.Rose, 2000;Bell et al, 1994;M.Thomas;.…”

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Embodied social capital and geographic perspectives: performing the habitus

Holt

2008

Progress in Human Geography

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This paper re-opens debates of geographic theorizations and conceptualizations of social capital. I argue that human geographers have tended to underplay the analytic value of social capital, by equating the concept with dominant policy interpretations.It is contended that geographers could more explicitly contribute to pervasive critical social science accounts. With this in mind, an embodied perspective of social capital is constructed. This synthesizes Bourdieu's capitals and performative theorizations of identity, to progresses the concept of social capital in four key ways. First, this theorization more fully reconnects embodied differences to broader socio-economic processes. Second, an exploration of how embodied social differences can emerge directly from the political-economy and/or via broader operations of power is facilitated. Third, a path is charted through the endurance of embodied inequalities and the potential for social transformation. Finally, embodied social capital can advance social science conceptualizations of the spatiality of social capital, by illuminating the importance of broader socio-spatial contexts and relations to the embodiment of social capital within individuals.

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All hyped up and no place to go

Cited by 282 publications

References 13 publications

Homelessness and identity: a critical review of the literature and theory

Homelessness and identity: a critical review of the literature and theory

Rainbows of Resistance: LGBTQ Pride Parades Contesting Space in Post-Conflict Belfast

Embodied social capital and geographic perspectives: performing the habitus

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