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Swept Up Lives? - Re-envisaging the Homeless City (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,084
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Swept Up Lives? - Re-envisaging the Homeless City (Paperback): P Cloke

Swept Up Lives? - Re-envisaging the Homeless City (Paperback)

P 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 homelessnessEmphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of care embodied and performed within homeless services spacesSuggests that different homelessness 'scenes' develop in different places due to varied historical, political, and cultural responses to the problems faced

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Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2010
First published: May 2010
Authors: P Cloke
Dimensions: 232 x 154 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-5387-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Homelessness
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > Economic geography
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LSN: 1-4051-5387-3
Barcode: 9781405153874

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