Fox O'Mahony, L (2013) The meaning of home: from theory to practice. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 5 (2). pp. 156-171. DOI https://doi.org/10.1108/ijlbe-11-2012-0024
Fox O'Mahony, L (2013) The meaning of home: from theory to practice. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 5 (2). pp. 156-171. DOI https://doi.org/10.1108/ijlbe-11-2012-0024
Fox O'Mahony, L (2013) The meaning of home: from theory to practice. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 5 (2). pp. 156-171. DOI https://doi.org/10.1108/ijlbe-11-2012-0024
Abstract
This paper aims to analyse the development and application of the conceptual framework within which housing scholars can think, talk about and advocate for ?home?. Design/methodology/approach ? It reflects on the theoretical progress that has been made in embedding a legal concept of home in the last decade, and identifies opportunities for this scholarship to support critical engagement with laws and policies that give content to home meanings. Findings ? A key goal for the concept of home is to help us to think about problems differently, by highlighting important issues flowing from the human relationship with home; with the ways in which the idea of home is present or absent in legal responses to home issues. A focus on home meanings enables us to examine questions which are not always deemed ?relevant? to legal proceedings, for example, the human, social and personal costs of displacement and dispossession. The concept of home provides the vocabulary, and the theoretical framework, for articulating these human claims more coherently. It enables us to identify those problems in need of policy attention; to develop a narrative to express them; and to generate support for solving them. Originality/value ? Ten years after the publication of ?The meaning of home?, this article reflects on the development of the legal concept of home, and the range of contemporary housing issues to which its applications are both relevant and significant.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Concept of home; Financial value; Housing; Housing advocacy; Law; Non-financial meanings |
Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Essex Law School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2015 16:27 |
Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2024 15:50 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/11691 |