Mobilities and commons unseen: spatial mobility in homeless people explored through the analysis of GPS tracking data

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F20%3A00508076" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/20:00508076 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-019-10030-4" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-019-10030-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-019-10030-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10708-019-10030-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mobilities and commons unseen: spatial mobility in homeless people explored through the analysis of GPS tracking data

Original language description

The aim of this study was to examine the spatial mobility of homeless people in urban areas, exploring homeless mobility, its drivers, limits and links to personal attributes, and whether there is an association between the extent of spatial activity and an individual’s housing situation. To our knowledge, there has been no prior exhaustive attempt to explore the spatial mobility of homeless people using Global Positioning System (GPS) location devices. The theoretical background of the research was based on time-geography approaches. The research used a mixed method approach involving participatory GPS mapping. Spatial mobility was measured by GPS location devices. GPS tracking made it possible to capture the precise location of a person in time and space, and subsequently to identify the daily and weekly mobility rhythms of such people. The GPS data were further contextualised by conducting interviews with homeless people and asking about their daily mobility. The groundwork for the interviews resulted in printed maps of the participants’ daily spatial mobility (n = 598). The combination of timelocation data and ethnographic methods presented several technical and organisational difficulties, but the pilot study provided valuable knowledge about the everyday-life mobility of homeless people in cities. A novel understanding of the links between homeless mobilities, urban commons and the life conditions of homeless people can inform current welfare policies relating to the poor.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50702 - Urban studies (planning and development)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-17540S" target="_blank" >GA15-17540S: Time and Space of Homeless Persons in a Post-socialistic City: A Comparison of Prague and Pilsen</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

GeoJournal

ISSN

0343-2521

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

85

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

1411-1427

UT code for WoS article

000570887600014

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85067917802