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Dear colleagues,

We are looking for paper proposals for a Special Issue entitled
'Home-making without a home: dwelling practices among homeless people' to
be published in Housing Studies. Please find the CfP below.

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/housing-studies-si-home-making-without-a-home/?utm_source=CPB_think&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JOC08823

Special IssueHome-making without a home: dwelling practices among homeless
people

Homelessness is a complex phenomenon that gathers a wide variety of
contrasting realities. Contemporary research has largely focused on the
factors that lead people to become homeless, their struggles and the forms
of social care offered to them. Despite the increasing interest in the
social dynamics of homelessness, the dwelling practices that constitute the
everyday life of people living without a shelter have been sparsely
addressed in the scholarly literature.

This special issue seeks to address this gap. Its objective is twofold:
first, it aims to contribute to the empirical knowledge base of home-making
processes among homeless people through the analysis of their dwelling
practices and strategies developed in their efforts to survive. Second, it
seeks to contribute to current theorisations of home and homelessness, and
to engage with the practical implications of these empirical and
theoretical advances for the development of social policy.

We expect papers to address a wide range of contexts and experiences of
homelessness, advancing a nuanced approach on the counterintuitive fact
that home-making practices take place in the absence of a home. For
instance, how do these practices unfold in the case of migrants, refugees
and non-migrants? In what ways are these practices carried on by adults,
children, young or elderly people? These questions invite us to think of
dwelling processes as multi-scalar phenomena: how and to what extent are
certain places considered to be home-like? In what ways do homeless people
attach a sense of home to their provisional dwelling places, shelters,
neighbourhoods, regions or cities? And how is the tension between staying
or leaving experienced in the context of homelessness?

The notion of home-making is very often associated with dwelling in
domestic environments. However, there is much more to these practices than
what occurs within the confines of the dwelling place. How is a sense of
home attached and reshaped while living in the streets? How do people
without a conventional dwelling place find and make places to sleep and
rest? How do they produce a sense of home while sleeping rough or in a
shelter? What are the processes, routines, workarounds and tactics used by
homeless people to make home in the streets or in places that are not
intended to serve this purpose? What are the meanings associated with those
strategies and how are they enabled? How is home – and the making of it –
conceptualised in people’s everyday life and future planning? What is the
role of social relationships in making oneself at home? How is home made in
a homeless shelter as opposed to the street?

This special issue aims to connect fine-grained analyses of homeless
people’s practised everyday life with housing and welfare policies. If
homelessness is closely related to welfare policies, what are their
consequences on how homeless people try to make themselves at home? To
which extent are those home-making practices taken into account by policy
makers? How are they shaped by the organisation of social care? For
example, we wonder what are the impacts of current housing-first approaches
on the home-making practices of its recipients. From a more individual
perspective, what kind of home do people on the street hope for? How is
this hope and searching for home put into practice in the short- and
long-term? What role do institutional actors play in facilitating or
deterring those practices?

Papers from all social science disciplines (i.e. sociology, anthropology,
geography, history, public policy, political science and economics) are
welcome. Both theoretically and empirically-grounded (qualitative,
quantitative, and mixed-method) manuscripts will be considered for
publication, provided that the underlying research has a potential to
deliver significant progress in this research area. This special issue
particularly aims at attracting papers from a wide range of geographical
locations and representing the diversity of homelessness.

A list of potential topics includes (but is not limited to) the following:

   - Home-making practices and processes in the street (e.g. among people
   sleeping rough)
   - Homeless people’s strategies to feel or make themselves at home in
   shelters
   - The meanings attached to home (in its various guises) by homeless
   people
   - The role of social relationships in homeless people’s sense of home
   - Home in homeless people’s future planning
   - The scales of home in homelessness
   - How welfare policies and social care interventions consider, represent
   or address dwelling and home-making processes among homeless people
   - The impact of welfare policies on everyday homeless people’s dwelling
   practices

Submission Guidelines

Offers of proposed papers should be submitted by *10 May 2019 *to the guest
editors Laureline Coulomb, Johannes Lenhard and Alejandro Miranda-Nieto <
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask]>. They should include the institutional
affiliation and contact details of the author(s); a title and an abstract
of no more than 500 words.

Authors will be notified about the acceptance or rejection of their
proposal on 15 June 2019. The deadline for submission of full papers to the
guest editors is *15 September 2019*. The guest editors will provide
comments and then revised papers will be submitted to the journal’s
standard peer-review procedures.


Alejandro Miranda

Postdoctoral fellow | Sociology, University of Trento

*HOMInG*
Home as a Window on Migrant Belonging, Integration and Circulation
ERC StG no. 678456 (2016-21)
homing.soc.unitn.it; @erchoming

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