Homeless lives in American cities : interrogating myth and locating community

著者

• Webb, Philip

書誌事項

Homeless lives in American cities : interrogating myth and locating community

Philip Webb

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

• : hardcover

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-271) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impacts of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. It demonstrates how contemporary social work and policy emerge from Victorian cultural attitudes.

目次

PART I: FORMING HOMELESSNESS 1. The Fin-de-Siecle City 2. Anti-Semitic Roots of Homelessness PART II: CONSOLIDATING HOMELESSNESS 3. Discourse and Subjectivation in American Homelessness 4. The Limits of Hobosociality for Social Mooring 5. Homelessness as Disaffiliation PART III: FRAGMENTING HOMELESSNESS 6. Fracturing Consensus: Women and Minorities 7. The Homeless Family and the Return of Myth PART IV: TRANSFORMING HOMELESSNESS 8. The Homeless and the Disneyfication of the City 9. A Decoupled Homelessness: Changing Signification

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB1700829X
• ISBN:
  • 9781137374226
• LCCN: 2014004216
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: 278 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HV4505
  • DC23 : 305.5/6920973
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Homeless persons -- United States
  • LCSH : Homelessness -- United States
  • LCSH : Cities and towns -- Growth -- Social aspects