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Making Better Lives : Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris /
In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the bes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2022]
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| Colección: | WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ;
11 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface. A Personal Down and Out in London and Paris
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Introductions
- Introduction. People Sleeping Rough at the Gare du Nord
- Frame. Hoping for Home
- Part II. Short-Term Hopes: Surviving the Street
- Chapter 1. Labour with, off and on the Street
- Chapter 2. Habiter: Making Shelter when Sleeping Rough
- Chapter 3. Drug Time: Cutting through Time with Alcohol and Drugs
- Part III. Towards the Future, Assisted
- Chapter 4. Ruptures from Drug Time: Institutional Support at Sun and Emo
- Chapter 5. Between Relationships and the Projet de Vie: Social Work at Freedom
- Chapter 6. Towards a Room of One's Own: Living in 'Ruly' Temporary Accommodation
- Conclusion. Better Lives on the Street
- References
- Index