ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on discussion of street homelessness as a socio-spatial phenomenon has been informed by theoretical debates concerning home and the city. It presents two extended case-studies of the regulation of homeless spaces and the marginalisation and exclusion of the homeless body. First, the case of homelessness in the counties of Gwynedd, Conwy and Shropshire provides a sense both of the nature of regulation and exclusion of deviance in rural areas, and of the strategies of resistance utilised by the rural homeless. The second case, that of Manchester's Cardboard city, examines the temporal and spatial aspects of the daily routines of street homeless people. The chapter discusses the urban-based ethnographic interviews that were conducted during the passage through Parliament of Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill in 1993-94. It analyses complex relations between marginal street homeless and dominant settled populations, an analysis which has been informed by theoretical debates concerning home and homelessness in urban and rural spaces.
