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Gowan Teresa
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Titolo: |
Hobos, hustlers, and backsliders : homeless in San Francisco / / Teresa Gowan
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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.509794/61 |
Soggetto topico: | Homeless persons - California - San Francisco |
Homeless men - California - San Francisco | |
Homelessness - California - San Francisco | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hobos, hustlers, and backsliders ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4529-4635-3 |
0-8166-7354-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826295803321 |
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