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Swept Up Lives:

Re-envisioning the Homeless City (Google eBook)
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John Wiley & Sons, Jan 31, 2011 - Social Science - 304 pages
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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Contents

From Neoliberalization to Postsecularism
22
Tactics and Performativities in the Homeless City
61
Outdoor
92
Refuge
117
Its Been a Tough Night Huh? Hopelessness
147
Uneven Geographies of Provision in
181
Caring
211
Conclusions
241
References
255
Index
274
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About the author (2011)

Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter. His research interests are in social and cultural geographies of ethics, rurality, and nature, and he has published widely on issues relating to poverty, homelessness, and social marginalisation.

Jon May is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He has published extensively on the geographies of homelessness and is the co-author or co-editor of five books including, most recently, Global Cities at Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour (2009).

Sarah Johnsen is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York. She has published widely in the field of homelessness and social policy.

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