Swept up lives? [[electronic resource] ] : re-envisioning the homeless city / / Paul Cloke, Jon May and Sarah Johnsen
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| Autore: |
Cloke Paul J
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| Titolo: |
Swept up lives? [[electronic resource] ] : re-envisioning the homeless city / / Paul Cloke, Jon May and Sarah Johnsen
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.5 |
| 362.5091732 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Homelessness |
| Homeless persons - Social conditions | |
| Urban policy | |
| Altri autori: |
MayJon
JohnsenSarah
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: re-envisioning the homeless city -- From neoliberalisation to post-secularism -- Tactics and performativities in the homeless city -- "He's not homeless, he shouldn't have any food": outdoor relief in a postsecular age -- "It's like you can almost be normal again": refuge and resource in Britain's day centres -- "It's been a tough night, huh?": hopelessness (and hope) in Britain's homeless hostels -- Big city blues: uneven geographies of provision in the homeless city -- On the margins of the homeless city: caring for homeless people in rural areas -- Conclusions. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in perspective in the analysis and understanding of urban homelessnessEmphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of care embodied and performed within homeless services spacesSuggests that different homelessness 'scenes' develop in different places due to varied historical, political, and cultural responses to |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Swept up lives |
| ISBN: | 1-4443-2465-9 |
| 1-282-69063-9 | |
| 9786612690631 | |
| 1-4443-2466-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910840807903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
RGS-IBG book series.