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Swept Up Lives?
Re-envisioning the Homeless City
E-Book
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ISBN-13:
9781444391336
Veröffentl:
2011
Einband:
E-Book
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Paul Cloke
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable E-Book
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in perspective in the analysis and understanding of urban homelessness Emphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of care embodied and performed within homeless services spaces Suggests that different homelessness scenes develop in different places due to varied historical, political, and cultural responses to the problems faced
Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives?challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace thecomplex and varied attempts to care for homeless people* Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests animportant shift in perspective in the analysis and understanding ofurban homelessness* Emphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of careembodied and performed within homeless services spaces* Suggests that different homelessness 'scenes'develop in different places due to varied historical, politicaland cultural responses to the problems faced
Figures and Tables viSeries Editors' Preface viiAcknowledgements viiiAbbreviations x1 Introduction: Re-envisioning the Homeless City 12 From Neoliberalization to Postsecularism 223 Tactics and Performativities in the Homeless City 614 'He's Not Homeless, He Shouldn't Have Any Food': Outdoor Relief in a Postsecular Age 925 'It's Like You Can Almost Be Normal Again': Refuge and Resource in Britain's Day Centres 1176 'It's Been a Tough Night, Huh?' Hopelessness (and Hope) in Britain's Homeless Hostels 1477 Big City Blues: Uneven Geographies of Provision in the Homeless City 1818 On the Margins of the Homeless City: Caring for Homeless People in Rural Areas 2119 Conclusions 241References 255Index 274