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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461676603321

Autore

Willse Craig

Titolo

Value of Homelessness [[electronic resource] ] : Managing Surplus Life in the United States

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2015

ISBN

1-4529-4529-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Difference Incorporated

Disciplina

362.5920973

Soggetti

United States - Economic conditions - 2009-

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Housing and Other Monsters; 1. Surplus Life, or Race and Death in Neoliberal Times; 2. Homelessness as Method: Social Science and the Racial Order; 3. From Pathology to Population: Managing Homelessness in the United States; 4. Governing through Numbers: HUD and the Databasing of Homelessness; 5. The Invention of Chronic Homelessness; Conclusion: Surplus Life at the Limits of the Good; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W