Swept Up Lives

ebook Re-envisioning the Homeless City · RGS-IBG Book

By Paul Cloke

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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
  • 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
  • Swept Up Lives