Cloke / May / Johnsen Swept Up Lives?

Re-envisioning the Homeless City
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9133-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives?challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace thecomplex and varied attempts to care for homeless people
* Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests animportant shift in perspective in the analysis and understanding ofurban homelessness
* Emphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of careembodied and performed within homeless services spaces
* Suggests that different homelessness 'scenes'develop in different places due to varied historical, political,and cultural responses to the problems faced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cloke, Paul

May, Jon

Johnsen, Sarah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables vi
Series Editors' Preface vii
Acknowledgements viii
Abbreviations x
1 Introduction: Re-envisioning the Homeless City 1
2 From Neoliberalization to Postsecularism 22
3 Tactics and Performativities in the Homeless City 61
4 'He's Not Homeless, He Shouldn't Have Any Food': Outdoor Relief in a Postsecular Age 92
5 'It's Like You Can Almost Be Normal Again': Refuge and Resource in Britain's Day Centres 117
6 'It's Been a Tough Night, Huh?' Hopelessness (and Hope) in Britain's Homeless Hostels 147
7 Big City Blues: Uneven Geographies of Provision in the Homeless City 181
8 On the Margins of the Homeless City: Caring for Homeless People in Rural Areas 211
9 Conclusions 241
References 255
Index 274

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the Universityof Exeter. His research interests are in social and culturalgeographies of ethics, rurality, and nature, and he has publishedwidely on issues relating to poverty, homelessness, and socialmarginalisation.
Jon May is Professor of Geography at Queen MaryUniversity of London. He has published extensively on thegeographies of homelessness and is the co-author or co-editor offive books including, most recently, Global Cities at Work: NewMigrant Divisions of Labour (2009).
Sarah Johnsen is a Research Fellow at the Centre forHousing Policy, University of York. She has published widely in thefield of homelessness and social policy.