The Complexities of Home in Social Work

Home is a complex and multifaceted concept. This book revisions how 'home' is used in social work literature by showing how it is positioned as being discursively represented, materially experienced and embodied, and multiply imagined as symbolic and existential.

Carole Zufferey is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of South Australia (Justice & Society). She has been researching home, housing, homelessness, social work and intersectionality since 2001. She has published one sole authored book Zufferey, C. (2017). Homelessness and Social Work: An Intersectional Approach, and two edited books with Routledge, Zufferey, C. & Yu, N. (eds) (2018). Faces of Homelessness in the Asia Pacific Region and Zufferey, C. & Buchanan, F. (eds) (2020). Intersections of mothering: Feminist accounts. Christopher Horsell is a Lecturer in Social Work, University of South Australia (Justice & Society). He been researching, teaching and publishing in the areas of homelessness, social inclusion and disability for over ten years.

1.Stolen homes. 2.The complexities of home in social work. Part I: Revisioning Home in Social Work. 3.Home, social work and intersectionality. 4.Home, homeownership and housing policy. 5.The subjectivities of home. Part II: Practice Considerations. 6.Without a house and home: homelessness. 7.The safety of home: violence against women. 8.Imagining family homes. 9.Belonging, home and young people. 10.Multiple, dislocated homes. 11.Classed mobilities, older generations and home. 12.Disability, social work and home. 13.Sexualities, social work and home. 14.Revisioning home in social work