Health, Housing, and Homelessness: An Ethnographic Understanding of Housing Instability and Social Care

Author:   Stefanie Plage
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032725338


Pages:   150
Publication Date:   15 September 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Health, Housing, and Homelessness: An Ethnographic Understanding of Housing Instability and Social Care


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Author:   Stefanie Plage
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781032725338


ISBN 10:   1032725338
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   15 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1.Introduction: Telling visual stories about health and housing. 2.How space and time shape caring in primary health care. 3.Integrating health and social care. 4.How people experiencing housing instability look after themselves. 5.Looking after other humans and non-humans. 6.Solitude, loneliness and the longing for connection. 7.Collapsing past, present and future. 8.Conclusion: Reimagining care to improve health for people experiencing housing instability.

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""Part short-stories, part scholarship and part policy critique, Plage takes readers along on her moving research journey into health and housing instability in one Australian city. Artfully drawing on fieldwork, she tells the stories of people experiencing homelessness and housing instability, tempering these stories of care, trying, and reframed hope with concepts from relevant contemporary social theorists. The result: a timely, affectively intense and academically powerful re-imagination of the intersections between health, housing and care that leaves readers wanting more for participants and from policy."" Prof Rebecca Olson, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia ""This groundbreaking book offers a powerful and deeply insightful exploration of the intersection between housing instability and health. With rich empirical research and a bold theoretical approach, it challenges conventional ideas about healthcare access, self-care, and often overly simplistic ‘social determinants’ paradigms. By centering lived experiences of people who are marginalised and drawing on affect theory and feminist scholarship, Plage reveals the plethora of systemic barriers that persistently undermine health equity while illuminating the day-to-day resilience and relational care practices of those navigating housing instability. A vital and urgent contribution, this book is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers committed to reimagining care and justice in our health and social systems."" Prof Alex Broom, Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, The University of Sydney, Australia


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Stefanie Plage, The University of Queensland, Australia.

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