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Professional Lives, Personal Struggles

Ethics and Advocacy in Research on Homelessness

Professional Lives, Personal Struggles( )
Editor: Amster, Randall
Valado, Martha Trenna
Contribution by: Adkins, Julie
Arnold, Kathleen
Borchard, Kurt
Cook, David
Ferrell, Jeff
Lyon-Callo, Vincent
von Mahs, Jürgen
Mitchell, Don
Rosenthal, Rob
Rowe, Michael
Staeheli, Lynn a.
Wright, J. Talmadge
ISBN:978-0-7391-7428-9
Publication Date:Jul 2012
Publisher:Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $121.00
Book Description:

This is the first book published that specifically examines questions of ethics and advocacy that arise in conducting research on homelessness, exploring the issues through the deeply personal experiences of some of the field's leading scholars. By examining the central queries from a broad range of perspectives, the authors presented here draw upon years of rich investigations to generate a framework that will be instructive for researchers across a wide spectrum of areas of...
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Book Details
Pages:226
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
Reference / Research
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.29 x 9.22 x 0.84 Inches
Book Weight:1.13 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Don Mitchell was born in 1961. He is a graduate of San Diego State University and Pennsylvania State University. He received a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1992, working with Neil Smith. He taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder before joining Syracuse University as a professor of geography in the late 1990s. He is best known for his work on cultural theory and the People's Geography Project. He works on labor struggles, human rights, and justice. In 1998, he became a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2008 a Guggenheim Fellow. He was awarded the Anders Retzius Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 2012.

He is the author of several books including The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space, The People's Property?: Power, Politics and the Public, and The Freedom Summer Murders.

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