Swept up lives? : re-envisioning the homeless city

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Swept up lives? : re-envisioning the homeless city

Paul Cloke, Jon May and Sarah Johnsen

(RGS-IBG book series)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-273) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9781405153867

内容説明

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, political,and cultural responses to the problems faced

目次

Figures and Tables vi Series Editors' Preface vii Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations x 1 Introduction: Re-envisioning the Homeless City 1 2 From Neoliberalization to Postsecularism 22 3 Tactics and Performativities in the Homeless City 61 4 'He's Not Homeless, He Shouldn't Have Any Food': Outdoor Relief in a Postsecular Age 92 5 'It's Like You Can Almost Be Normal Again': Refuge and Resource in Britain's Day Centres 117 6 'It's Been a Tough Night, Huh?' Hopelessness (and Hope) in Britain's Homeless Hostels 147 7 Big City Blues: Uneven Geographies of Provision in the Homeless City 181 8 On the Margins of the Homeless City: Caring for Homeless People in Rural Areas 211 9 Conclusions 241 References 255 Index 274
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9781405153874

内容説明

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

目次

Figures and Tables vi Series Editors' Preface vii Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations x 1 Introduction: Re-envisioning the Homeless City 1 2 From Neoliberalization to Postsecularism 22 3 Tactics and Performativities in the Homeless City 61 4 'He's Not Homeless, He Shouldn't Have Any Food': Outdoor Relief in a Postsecular Age 92 5 'It's Like You Can Almost Be Normal Again': Refuge and Resource in Britain's Day Centres 117 6 'It's Been a Tough Night, Huh?' Hopelessness (and Hope) in Britain's Homeless Hostels 147 7 Big City Blues: Uneven Geographies of Provision in the Homeless City 181 8 On the Margins of the Homeless City: Caring for Homeless People in Rural Areas 211 9 Conclusions 241 References 255 Index 274

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