This article reviews the emerging literature which uses discourse analysis to explore
questions for housing research. It considers the extent to which housing researchers have …

Die hier vorzustellende Methode der qualitativen Sozialforschung geht im Wesentlichen von
einer Annahme aus: Menschen verstehen Unvertrautes dadurch, dass sie die Muster …

Recent enthusiasm for evidence-based policy-making in Australia has many sources. So-
called 'managerialist'reforms to public administration have been significant, as has the …

This paper offers a critical appraisal of the methodological capacity of Discourse Studies
(DS) in conducting urban research. Based on an extensive literature search, 125 …

It is a truism that politicians from countries around the world claim to be in the midst of a
'housing crisis'. But how do they define it, who is affected, and what is the cause? This paper …

The Social Exclusion Unit's Report Bridging the Gap has had a major influence on the British
government's policy towards socially excluded young people. This article argues, however …

Positivism continues to exert a powerful influence on housing research. To a limited extent,
this began to change in the mid to late 1990s with a number of researchers in Europe and …

The article examines the representation of housing risk in contemporary Australian policy
discourse through a critical analysis of two policy texts from the recent Victorian Coalition …

This article studies the Western perceptions of and relations with Hong Kong a decade after
the reversion of the sovereignty from Britain to China in 1997. Previous studies have …

'Sustainability'provides the dominant frame within which environmental policy debate
occurs, notwithstanding its divergent meanings. However, how different discourses combine …