The Value of Homelessness : Managing Surplus Life in the United States /

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"It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. "The Value of Homelessness," however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but wha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Willse, Craig, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Housing policy.
Homelessness.
Homeless persons.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Logement > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Sans-abri > États-Unis.
Itinerance > États-Unis.
Housing policy > United States.
Homeless persons > United States.
Homelessness > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions economiques > 2009-
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
United States > Economic conditions > 2009-
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: housing and other monsters
  • Surplus life, or race and death in neoliberal times
  • Homelessness as method: social science and the racial order
  • From pathology to population: managing homelessness in the United States
  • Governing through numbers: HUD and the databasing of homelessness
  • The invention of chronic homelessness
  • Conclusion: surplus life at the limits of the good.

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