Homelessness and rurality: 'out-of-place' in purified space?
Homelessness and rurality: 'out-of-place' in purified space?
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DOI：
10.1068/d34j
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发表时间：
2000-12-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Widdowfield, R
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作者：
Cloke, P;Milbourne, P;Widdowfield, R
在本文中，我们讨论了明显的失败耦合在一起的“田园”和“无家可归”的结构，并提出了一个批判性的解构这种非耦合。三个主要的论点。首先，有一系列物理和物质的原因，为什么农村和城市空间有不同的质量隐藏或揭示无家可归的人，为什么无家可归的具体经验有不同的地理。第二，在农村居民自身的实践、思想和话语中存在着一系列障碍，导致他们否认无家可归的存在。第三，关于农村和无家可归的正常化概念化往往有助于将这两个概念分开，并有助于假设无家可归是一种城市现象，在农村空间中是不可见的。简而言之，无家可归可以被概念化为在乡村的净化空间中“格格不入”，而乡村和无家可归的想象地理变成了与人们在乡村和乡村周围实际做的事情有关的日常实践和行动。这种批判性的解构对于任何试图在决策者的理解和行动中重新将无家可归和农村联系起来的努力都是重要的。
In this paper we discuss the apparent failure to couple together the constructs of 'rurality' and 'homelessness', and propose a critical deconstruction of this noncoupling. Three principal lines of arguments are employed. First, there are a range of physical and material reasons why rural and urban spaces have varying qualities for hiding or revealing homeless people, and why the embodied experiences of homelessness have varying geographies. Second, there are a series of obstacles that exist within the practices, thoughts, and discourses of rural dwellers themselves, which lead them to deny that homelessness exists in their place. Third, normalised conceptualisations about rurality and homelessness often serve to separate the two concepts, and contribute to the assumption that homelessness is an urban phenomenon, which is rendered invisible in rural space. In short, homelessness may be conceptualised as being 'out-of-place' in the purified spaces of rurality, and the imaginary geographies of rurality and homelessness become transformed into everyday practices and actions relating to what people actually do in and about rural places. This critical deconstruction will be important for any attempts to recouple homelessness and rurality in the understandings and actions of policymakers.