Document Type : Original Article
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
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Professor, Department of Communication, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Professor, Department of Sociology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
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PhD student in Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Homelessness is a growing phenomenon in Iran and the world community, the main characteristic of which is the change in the place of living. The change in place is accompanied by a change in the experience of the lived body and the perception of time. Therefore, in this research, we study what perception homeless women (in Tehran) have about place, time and body? And how homeless women construct the social reality of their lives from the path of these perceptions. Using phenomenological theories and using experimental phenomenological method, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 10 homeless women who are temporarily present in Chitgar Lotus Hospital and the findings were analyzed using Creswell analysis method and maxqda 10 software. From the total semantic units extracted, five textual categories "Experience of the body in street life", "Reconstruction of the lived body", "Internal perception of time", "Self-awareness based on time", "Transition from home to the street: transfer from arena "internal to external arena" and three structural categories "experience of the body in street life", "temporality in lived experiences" and "disruption of the sense of place: passing from the internal arena to the external spatial arena" have been abstracted. Also, based on the experience of time and place, the trajectory of women's homelessness has been analyzed. The results show that in homeless women, the experience of space and time is corporeal, and these experiences are fundamental, confused and dynamic, and create a new order in their identity.
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