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SWEPT-UP LIVES?
RE-ENVISIONING THE HOMELESS CITY |
| By: |
Paul Cloke, Jon May, Sarah Johnsen |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£24.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1405153873 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781405153874 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
14 May, 2010 |
| Series: |
RGS-IBG Book Series |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept-Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts that have been instituted to care for homeless people. |
| Synopsis: |
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 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |