**Apologies for cross-posting**

Dear colleagues,

please find attached details for our session on "Entanglements of Homeless People in Society" at next year's ISA Forum of Sociology taking place from July 14-18, 2020, in Porto Alegre, Brazil (https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session13519.html)! The deadline for submitting an abstract is the 30th of September 2019. Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words through the dedicated ISA submission website (https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/cfp.cgi).

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts!

Best regards,
Frank Sowa


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Session: Entanglements of Homeless People in Society
RC19 Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (host committee)

Language: English

People without own housing live in a precarious life situation. Their troubling reality is often closely linked with a serious lack of economic, cultural and social resources. However, homeless people neither do live in pervasive isolation nor are they totally excluded from the social order. They are involved in specific relations and remain in some way dependent on other people. This means that the marginalized group of homeless people depend on other people who can be friends, allies, opponents or competitors. Furthermore, homeless people get a specific status in welfare regimes: Homelessness is regarded as a social problem, which should be processed and solved. In this context, homeless people are confronted with various assistance systems shaped by the social and labour activation policy paradigm. In order to understand the contingent and complex life worlds of homeless people and the unequal power relations they live in, we would like to focus on these dynamic interdependent networks homeless people are involved. This kind of theoretical reflection opens the view both on a social notion of normality, cultural labelling and attribution processes as well as on involved and articulating subjects with (sub-)cultural meaning, identity constructions, and specific cultural practices. The people involved have relative autonomy, ability to act as well as individual life plans and experiences. They interpret specific situations within relationships, make decisions and enter into relationships. We look forward to theoretical and empirical as well as interdisciplinary or country-comparative contributions displaying different entanglements of homeless people in society around the world.

Session Organizers:
Frank SOWA, University of Applied Sciences Georg Simon Ohm Nuremberg, Germany, [log in to unmask]
Thomas GURR, Leibniz University, Germany, [log in to unmask]

Anyone interested in presenting a paper should submit an abstract on-line through a centralized website (https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/cfp.cgi). The deadline to submit a proposal will be September 30, 2019. The abstract text cannot contain more than 300 words and must be submitted in English.


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Prof. Dr. Frank Sowa
Nuremberg Tech Georg Simon Ohm
Faculty of Social Sciences
Postfach
90121 Nuremberg
GERMANY

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http://www.th-nuernberg.de
http://frank-sowa.de

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