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Swept Up Lives: Re-envisioning the Homeless City (RGS-IBG Book Series)

By Jon May , Paul Cloke , Sarah Johnsen

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2010
ISBN
1405153865, 978-1-4051-5386-7, 9781444324662, 978-1-4051-5387-4, 1444324667
LCC
HV4493 .C56 2010
Open Library ID
OL24002440M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5999515 bytes)
Series
RGS-IBG book series
Edition
1
Pages
304\304
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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 homelessnessEmphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of care embodied and performed within homeless services spacesSuggests that different homelessness ‘scenes’ develop in different places due to varied historical, political, and cultural responses to the problems faced

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