Swept up Lives? Re-Envisioning the Homeless City |
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Author:
| Cloke, Paul May, Jon Johnsen, Sarah |
Series title: | RGS-IBG Book Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4443-2466-2 |
Publication Date: | May 2010 |
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Book Format: | Digital download |
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Book Description:
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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...
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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