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UNINA9910826295803321 |
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Autore |
Gowan Teresa |
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Titolo |
Hobos, hustlers, and backsliders : homeless in San Francisco / / Teresa Gowan |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-4529-4635-3 |
0-8166-7354-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (366 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Homeless persons - California - San Francisco |
Homeless men - California - San Francisco |
Homelessness - California - San Francisco |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sin, Sickness, and the System; Part I: BACKSTORIES; 1. Urban Ethnography beyond the Culture Wars; 2. Managing Homelessness in the United States; Part II: THE STREET; Watch Out, San Francisco! Ain't Gonna Get No Peace; 3. Moorings; 4. Word on the Street; 5. The New Hobos; Part III: RABBLE MANAGEMENT; Like I Need More Drugs in My Life?; 6. The Homeless Archipelago; 7. The Old Runaround: Class Cleansing in San Francisco; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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When homelessness reemerged in American cities during the 1980's at levels not seen since the Great Depression, it initially provoked shock and outrage. Within a few years, however, what had been perceived as a national crisis came to be seen as a nuisance, with early sympathies for the plight of the homeless giving way to compassion fatigue and then condemnation. Debates around the problem of homelessness-often set in terms of sin, sickness, and the failure of the social system-have come to profoundly shape how homeless people survive and make sense of their plights. In Hobos, Hustlers, and Ba |
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