Hobos, hustlers, and backsliders [[electronic resource] ] : homeless in San Francisco / / Teresa Gowan

• Autore: Gowan Teresa
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010
• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.: 9910459190803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II