Needed by nobody : homelessness and humanness in post-socialist Russia /
Here, anthropoligist Tova Höjdestrand offers a nuanced portrait of homelessness in St Petersburg. Based on ethnographic work at railway stations, soup kitchens, and other places where the homeless gather, Höjdestrand describes the material and mental world of this marginalized population.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Cornell paperbacks.
Culture and society after socialism. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Excrement of the state" : the Soviet-Russian production of homelessness
- Refuse economics : getting by with the help of waste
- Perilous places : the use and abuse of space and bodies
- No close ones : about (absent) families and friends
- Friend or foe? The ambiguity of homeless togetherness
- Dirt, degradation, and death.