Housing, social policy and differenceDisability, ethnicity, gender and housing

‘Insiderness’, ‘involvement’ and emotions; impacts for methods, ‘knowledge’ and social research

“…The role of 'agency' for housing practice focuses on processes of resistance and subversion by service users and practitioners ('gatekeepers') (Harrison, 2001). For example, Lipsky's (1997) 'street-level bureaucracy' theorised that attempting to respond to service users on mass basis would manifest in practitioners giving in to favouritism and stereotyping.…”

Understanding Processes of Ethnic Concentration and Dispersal : South Asian Residential Preferences in Glasgow

“…The more pragmatic contributions to this debate have attempted to balance both ideas and recent literature has tended to emphasise the interaction of both choice and constraint in determining residential segregation. Several authors have given credence to the idea that structural constraints operate in conjunction with agency and have a dialectical relationship (Harrison & Davis 2001;Ratcliffe 2004) creating what Phillips terms as 'bounded choices ' (2003: 47). Similarly, the diversity amongst and within minority households has produced divergent tendencies and outcomes leading to the focus in more contemporary literature on the importance of diversity and other forms of difference in explanations of segregation (Ratcliffe 2004).…”

“…Authors such as Amin (2002) and Dywer (1999) have highlighted the deficit in the ethnicisation of identity as failing to consider how ethnicity interrelates with class, education, gender, age, consumption and education. Harrison and Davis (2001) unpack this even further and point to the complexity of individual experiences that are indeed more complex than these broader categories of difference. Likewise, this echoes Phillip's (2006) assertion that the self-segregation debate sees the boundaries between religious and socio-cultural groups as being impermeable, overlooking the diversity of British Muslim's identifications.…”

The Health and Wellbeing of Gypsies and Travellers in Settled Housing: A Narrative Review of the Evidence and Policy

“…Furthermore, fields operate through individual ability to alter positions, for instance, use of knowledge and resources to resist dominant discourses and produce positive outcomes and change fields of cultural interaction. Harrison and Davis (2001) also highlight the need for social policy makers to consider how grassroots and community activities takes place within an ensemble of inter-linking structural regulatory practices, some discordant, and others shifting over time. Individuals are active agents but in contexts that privilege some and disadvantage others in regular and patterned ways (Harrison and Davis, 2001).…”

“…Harrison and Davis (2001) also highlight the need for social policy makers to consider how grassroots and community activities takes place within an ensemble of inter-linking structural regulatory practices, some discordant, and others shifting over time. Individuals are active agents but in contexts that privilege some and disadvantage others in regular and patterned ways (Harrison and Davis, 2001). Similarly, health and social policy makers and researchers are also critically recognising how health, and wellbeing, in particular, are inter-connected with 'place' and context and the inter-relationships of emotional, social, cultural and experiential meaning that both shape place and are shaped by it (Atkinson et al, 2012).…”