Needed by nobody : homelessness and humanness in post-socialist Russia /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Höjdestrand, Tova, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Colección:Cornell paperbacks.
Culture and society after socialism.
Temas:
Since 1991
Homelessness > Russia (Federation)
Itinérance > Russie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Homelessness
Social conditions
Hemlösa.
Sociala förhållanden.
Russia (Federation) > Social conditions > 1991-
Russie > Conditions sociales > 1991-
Russia (Federation)
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.

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