Swept up lives? : re-envisioning the homeless city / Paul Cloke, Jon May and Sarah Johnsen.
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TextSeries: RGS-IBG book seriesPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Description: 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444324655; 1444324659; 9781444324662; 1444324667; 1282690639; 9781282690639Subject(s): Homelessness | Homeless persons -- Social conditions | Urban policy | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness | Homeless persons -- Social conditions | Homelessness | Urban policyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Swept up lives?.DDC classification: 362.5 LOC classification: HV4493 | .C56 2010Online resources: Wiley Online Library | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Front Matter -- Introduction: Re-Envisioning the Homeless City -- From Neoliberalization to Postsecularism -- Tactics and Performativities in the Homeless City -- ₁He's Not Homeless, He Shouldn't Have Any Food₂: Outdoor Relief in a Postsecular Age -- ₁It's Like You Can Almost Be Normal Again₂: Refuge and Resource in Britain's Day Centres -- ₁It's Been a Tough Night, Huh?₂ Hopelessness (and Hope) in Britain's Homeless Hostels -- Big City Blues: Uneven Geographies of Provision in the Homeless City -- On the Margins of the Homeless City: Caring for Homeless People in Rural Areas -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: re-envisioning the homeless city -- From neoliberalization to postsecularism -- Tactics and performativities in the homeless city -- 'He's not homeless, he shouldn't have any food': outdoor relief in a postsecular age -- 'It's like you can almost be normal again': refuge and resource in Britain's day centres -- 'It's been a tough night, huh?': hopelessness (and hope) in Britain's homeless hostels -- Big city blues: uneven geographies of provision in the homeless city -- On the margins of the homeless city: caring for homeless people in rural areas -- Conclusions.
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 face.
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