Hazley, B., Wright, V. , Abrams, L. and Kearns, A. (2018) 'People and their homes rather than housing in the usual sense’? Locating the tenant’s voice in Homes in High Flats. Women's History Review, 28(5), pp. 728-745. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2018.1472890)
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Abstract
In recent years, the social research of Pearl Jephcott has been subject to scholarly reappraisal on the grounds that it displays an early commitment to the unmediated reporting of ‘the authentic voice of her participants’. This article investigates the extent to which this claim holds for Jephcott’s seminal 1971 study Homes in High Flats. It suggests that, although Homes in High Flats sought to investigate ‘people and their homes rather than housing in the usual sense’, the study’s ability to realise this aim was complicated by the social distance obtaining between researcher and researched. Based on re-analysis of the study’s archived research materials, the article explores how this distance mediated the researchers’ interpretation and re-presentation of the tenant’s voice, deepening understanding of the epistemological premises of Jephcott’s work.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Kearns, Professor Ade and Wright, Dr Valerie and Abrams, Professor Lynn and Hazley, Dr Barry |
| Authors: | Hazley, B., Wright, V., Abrams, L., and Kearns, A. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Economic and Social History College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies |
| Journal Name: | Women's History Review |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 0961-2025 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1747-583X |
| Published Online: | 09 May 2018 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
| First Published: | First published in Women's History Review 28(5):728-745 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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