Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book Swept Up Lives? written by Paul Cloke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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