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The Space of Boredom - Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order (Paperback)
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The Space of Boredom - Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order (Paperback)
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In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast
aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward
mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom. Focusing on
Bucharest, Romania, where the 2008 financial crisis compounded the
failures of the postsocialist state to deliver on the promises of
liberalism, O'Neill shows how the city's homeless are unable to
fully participate in a society that is increasingly organized
around practices of consumption. Without a job to work, a home to
make, or money to spend, the homeless-who include pensioners
abandoned by their families and the state-struggle daily with the
slow deterioration of their lives. O'Neill moves between homeless
shelters and squatter camps, black labor markets and transit
stations, detailing the lives of men and women who manage boredom
by seeking stimulation, from conversation and coffee to sex in
public restrooms or going to the mall or IKEA. Showing how boredom
correlates with the downward mobility of Bucharest's homeless,
O'Neill theorizes boredom as an enduring affect of globalization in
order to provide a foundation from which to rethink the politics of
alienation and displacement.
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