Helter-Shelter : Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter /

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"Helter-Shelter is an ethnographic account of the manner in which an emergency shelter is governed on a daily basis, from the perspective of the personnel who are employed and tasked with providing care. Prashan Ranasinghe focuses on how the founding ethos of the shelter, an ethic of care, is c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ranasinghe, Prashan, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Shelters for the homeless.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
crisis shelters.
Sans-abri > Logement.
Sans-abri > Services > Aspect moral.
Sans-abri > Soins > Aspect moral.
Homeless persons > Services for > Moral and ethical aspects.
Homeless persons > Care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Locating the shelter, locating an ethic of care
  • An inside (and closer) look at the shelter : spatial tactics and the aesthetics of an ethic of care
  • From the mundane to the chaotic : the (un)making of chaos
  • Gendered security and a gendered ethic of care
  • The logic of legality and the administration of chaos
  • From the laughable to the ridiculous : the example of "zero tolerance"
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue.

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