Swept Up Lives?
Jon May, Sarah Johnsen, Paul Cloke, et al.
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Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Geografie
Beschreibung
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
Rezensionen
"Overall, this book makes a substantial contribution to research on urban homelessness. It provides a glimpse into a network of emotions relationships, and service provision that is underacknowledged in urban geography."
"Swept up Lives? lives up toexpectations and delivers a well argued and insightful analysis that progresses established paradigmatic ways of understanding homelessness in the Western world."
"I cannot praise this book highly enough or hope to do justice to it in a short review. It is a considerable and possibly unprecedented achievement . . . I would recommend that this book be read by everyone who has anything to do with homelessness, and by every policy work, every politician, and every academic analyst of the policy process."
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--Lois M. Takahashi, University of California, Los Angeles
'Challenging theories of urban revanchism that deny homeless people agency and neglect the complexities of today's welfare state, Swept Up Lives provides a sharp conceptual corrective and rich portrayal of geographies of homelessness in Britain. Detailed ethnographies and institutional analysis offer a window on homeless subjectivities and voluntary organizations as spaces of caring and active citizenship. I highly recommend this book.'
--Jennifer Wolch, University of California, Berkeley
'A well crafted, insightful and timely book that overturns existing orthodoxies, exploring the experience of homelessness in the UK and providing a thought-provoking portrayal of the human face of homelessness.'
--Christine Milligan, Lancaster University
Kundenbewertungen
GIS, Fernerkundung u. Kartographie, Geographie, Geography, Anthropogeographie, Urban Geography, Stadtgeographie, GIS, Remote Sensing & Cartography, Human Geography