title: Changing homelessness services: revanchism, 'professionalisation' and resistance.
abstract: This paper argues that the increasing international salience of homelessness can be partially explained by reference to the revanchist thesis (involving processes of coerced exclusion and abjection), but the situation on the ground is more complex. It reports on interviews with 18 representatives of 11 homelessness service providers in one city in England. As Cloke et al. found, these providers tended to be either larger, more 'professional', 'insider' services or smaller, more 'amateur', 'outsider' services. However, this does not mean that the former were necessarily more revanchist and the latter less so. Rather, the actions of both types of organisation could, in some cases, be construed as both advancing and counteracting a revanchist project.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Midwifery Social Work & Social Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, UK.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Scullion
authors.affiliation: School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Somerville
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Midwifery Social Work & Social Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, UK.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Midwifery Social Work & Social Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, UK.
authors.forename: Gareth
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morris
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004739:England; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007857:Leadership; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012940:Social Problems / Q000523:psychology*; D035862:Vulnerable Populations
keywords: collaboration; communities of practice; homelessness; leadership; ‘professionalisation’