University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Urban Stud. 2011;48(8):1739-753. doi: 10.1177/0042098010377476.
For domiciled individuals, homeless people provide a disturbing reminder that all is not right with the world. Reactions to seeing homeless people frequently encompass repulsion, discomfort, sympathy and sometimes futility. This paper considers domiciled constructions of homeless people drawn from interviews with 16 participants recruited in the central business district of a New Zealand city. It documents how, when trying to make sense of this complex social problem, domiciled people draw on shared characterizations of homeless people. The concept of "social distance" is used to interrogate the shifting and sometimes incongruous reactions evident in participant accounts. "Social distancing" is conceptualised as a dynamic communal practice existing in interactions between human beings and reflected in the ways that domiciled people talk about their experiences with homeless individuals.
对于居住在固定居所的人来说，无家可归者让人不禁想起这个世界并不完美。人们看到无家可归者时的反应通常包括反感、不适、同情，有时还有无奈。本文从访谈中选取了 16 名参与者，他们居住在新西兰一个城市的中心商务区，探讨了居住者对无家可归者的看法。本文记录了居住者在试图理解这一复杂社会问题时，如何利用对无家可归者的共同特征的描述。本文使用“社会距离”的概念来探究参与者描述中明显存在的变化和有时不一致的反应。“社会距离”被概念化为一种存在于人类之间互动中的动态共同实践，反映在居住者谈论他们与无家可归者的经历的方式中。
