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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791930203321

Titolo

Professional lives, personal struggles [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Trenna Valado and Randall Amster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham [Md.], : Lexington Books, 2012

ISBN

1-283-52388-4

9786613836335

0-7391-7429-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ValadoTrenna <1972->

AmsterRandall

Disciplina

174/.9362592

Soggetti

Homelessness

Homeless persons

Research - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: rediscovering homelessness-- and ourselves / Randall Amster -- Advocacy and identity -- Social justice, ethics, and advocacy in street research : a personal accounting / Talmadge Wright -- The advocate researcher / Rob Rosenthal -- Homelessness and drag / Kathleen Arnold -- Writing the streets : dilemmas of depiction / Trenna Valado -- Relationships and ethics -- Planning and managing ethical dilemmas in homelessness research / Michael Rowe -- A "buddy researcher" prospects, limitations, and ethical considerations in ethnographic research on homeless people in berlin / Jürgen von Mahs -- Ethics and studying homelessness : tales from the field / Kurt Borchard -- Weapons of the weak, by the weak, and for the weak : negotiating power between and among homeless persons and service providers / Julie Adkins -- Research and transformation -- Do we really need more research on homelessness? : an autoethnographic exploration of ethics, advocacy, and exasperation / Vin Lyon-Callo -- Homelessness as "internal displacement" : scholarship and activism in post-Katrina New Orleans / Randall Amster -- Do (no) harm : homelessness and personal transformation / David Cook -- On the



politics and ethics of "using" "the homeless" in social justice research / Don Mitchell and Lynn Staeheli -- Conclusion: synthesizing the personal and professional / Trenna Valado -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

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 inquiry.