“Of Nomads and Vagrants: Single Homelessness and Narratives of Home as Place”

Rather than the pattern or experience of that mobility, the primary focus of this paper is an examination of the manner in which those for whom the experience of homelessness has included differing degrees of movement between places articulate this wider sense of home. Examining these men’s experiences four narratives of home as place are outlined, relating to the experiences of the ‘(dis)placed’, the ‘homesick’, of those articulating a ‘spectral geography’, and of the ‘new nomads’.