Publications

Publication details [#57517]

Schneider, Barbara and Chaseten Remillard. 2013. Caring about homelessness: how identity work maintains the stigma of homelessness. Text & Talk 33 (1) : 95–112.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

definition | discursive practice | identity negotiation | prejudice | social status

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This paper shows how seemingly caring statements of members of the general public on homelessness and homeless people include discursive practices that strengthen stigmatizing conceptions of homelessness and uphold existing social disparities.