Article
“This Right Here Is All About Living”: Communicating the “Common Sense” About Home Stability Through CBPR and Photovoice
Journal of Applied communication Research
(2012)
Abstract
Homelessness remains a major problem in the United States as a result of urban deprivation, economic decline, a rise in housing costs, and a decline in blue-collar wages. Meanwhile, the dominant discourses around homelessness tend to frame the matter in terms of individual deviance rather than structural impediments. This study utilizes Community-Based Participatory Research and the photovoice method to articulate what a small number of “successfully home stable individuals” attribute to helping them to remain home stable as well as those factors that challenge this situation. The study analyzes how these attributions challenge the “common sense” about homelessness by refiguring the concept as a reintegration process with manifold causes and paths into and out of episodic home instability and giving voice to formerly homeless individuals who are successfully navigating reintegration into housed society.
Keywords
- CBPR,
- Home Stability,
- Homelessness,
- Photovoice,
- Participatory Research
Disciplines
Publication Date
2012
DOI
10.1080/00909882.2012.693941
Publisher Statement
Taylor & Francis Online
Citation Information
Jeffery C. Peterson, Mary Grace Antony and Ryan J. Thomas. "“This Right Here Is All About Living”: Communicating the “Common Sense” About Home Stability Through CBPR and Photovoice" Journal of Applied communication Research Vol. 40 Iss. 3 (2012) p. 247 - 270 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marygrace-antony/12/