Swept Up Lives?

Re-envisioning the Homeless City

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Urban
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Author: Paul Cloke, Jon May, Sarah Johnsen ISBN: 9781444391336
Publisher: Wiley Publication: January 31, 2011
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Language: English
Author: Paul Cloke, Jon May, Sarah Johnsen
ISBN: 9781444391336
Publisher: Wiley
Publication: January 31, 2011
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English

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 homelessness
  • Emphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of care embodied 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
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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

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