Mobile Caring-Work: Volunteer homelessness outreach on the streets of Brighton & Hove (UK)

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Table 1. Typology of movement and work, based on Smith and Hall (2016a, 153–8).

Type	Detail	Combination	Environment
Functional	Workplace journey, destination-oriented, unremarkable	Sequential: movement antecedent to actual business, preliminary task	Environment is a burden or complication
Pragmatic	Work on the move, affordance and necessity	Simultaneous: concurrent activities	Environment and movement traversed, dampened down so as not to distract from the work
Peripatetic	Work enabled by movement, movement enrolled in service of work, work gets done because of it	Simultaneous: concurrent activities	Environment may play a part but need not distract
Mobile	Work as movement	Amalgam	Wholly engaged with environment, not seeking to traverse it

Table 2. Projects types of movement and work (based on Smith and Hall (2016a).

Projects/ Activities	Type	Detail	Combination	Environment
Street Kitchen	Functional	Workplace journey, destination-oriented, unremarkable	Sequential: movement antecedent to actual business, preliminary task	Environment is a burden or complication
Resource distribution	Pragmatic	Work on the move, affordance and necessity	Simultaneous: concurrent activities	Environment and movement traversed, dampened down so as not to distract from the work
Resource distribution	Peripatetic	Work enabled by movement, movement enrolled in service of work, work gets done because of it	Simultaneous: concurrent activities	Environment may be part of but need not distract
Outreach Support	Mobile	Work as movement	Amalgam	Wholly engaged with environment, not seeking to traverse it

Table 3. Caringscapes framework (based on Bowlby 2012).

Number	Proposition
1	Informal caring is a social/relational activity embedded in notions of obligation and reciprocity
2	Informal caring is an ethical activity involving notions of normative behaviour and desirable or “appropriate” social relationships
3	Informal caring often involves relationships of unequal power – especially inequalities of class, gender, race and (dis)ability
4	Informal caring is an embodied activity in which co-presence, bodily separation, and mediated forms of communication affect the caring encounter
5	The performance of informal caring necessarily involves processes that connect across time–space
6	The performance of informal caring involves a person using resources – people, ideas, material objects, as well as time and space to care – accessed through particular places and spaces at particular times
7	The performance of informal caring involves a person reflecting on or enacting aspects of past informal caring relationships and/or anticipating future caring relationships
8	The performance of informal caring involves a person reflecting on and/or anticipating how informal caring relationships link to other actual or anticipated aspects of their lives

Figure 1. Photo of resource distribution activity by author.

Smith, R. J., and T. Hall. 2016a. “Mobilities at Work: Care, Repair, Movement and a Fourfold Typology.” Applied Mobilities 1: 147–160. doi:10.1080/23800127.2016.1246897.

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Bowlby, S. 2012. “Recognising the Time-space Dimensions of Care: Caringscapes and Carescapes.” Environment and Planning A 44 (9): 2101–2118. doi:10.1068/a44492.

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