Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article is concerned with the emotional effects of homelessness on women who are mothers.It develops a multi-disciplinary conceptualization of "haunting" to bring understanding to the ongoing grief and trauma associated with losing a home and children.It explores how women's embodied and affective experiences are not just responses to deeply distressing events, but inextricably intertwined with the unfurling of housing and child protection policies, sometimes long after a policy decision (eviction, child removal).Drawing on biographical research with 26 women, the article contributes new insights into both our limited understanding of women's homelessness but also scholarly work that recognizes the diffuse power of social policy and its harms.The article advances a novel understanding of women's lived experience of homelessness by conceptualizing and empirically investigating the emotional effects of policy decisions as hauntings that permeate past, present and anticipated futures.
Source: Housing Theory and Society
Author: Sadie Parr
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Sheffield Hallam University
OpenAlex ID: W4393355648