Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance : Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry /

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Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in Northampton, Massachusetts, Lyon-Ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyon-Callo, Vincent, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Higher Education University of Toronto Press Incorporated
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Neoliberalismus
Obdachloser
Angewandte Anthropologie
Social policy.
Shelters for the homeless.
Poverty.
Homelessness > Government policy.
Homelessness.
Equality.
Economic policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Itinerance > Massachusetts > Northampton.
Sans-abri > Logement > Massachusetts > Northampton.
Itinerance > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Pauvrete > États-Unis.
Homelessness > Massachusetts > Northampton.
Shelters for the homeless > Massachusetts > Northampton.
Homelessness > Government policy > United States.
Poverty > United States.
Equality > United States.
Northampton, Mass.
United States.
Massachusetts > Northampton.
États-Unis > Politique economique > 1993-2001.
États-Unis > Politique sociale > 1993-
United States > Economic policy > 1993-2001.
United States > Social policy > 1993-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""INTRODUCTION: Poverty and Homelessness""; ""CHAPTER 1: The Political-Economic Context""; ""CHAPTER 2: Medicalizing Homelessness""; ""CHAPTER 3: Shelter Statistics and the Silencing of Systemic Concerns""; ""CHAPTER 4: The Non-Compliant Homeless: Arielâ€?s Story""; ""CHAPTER 5: Defining the Role of the Sheltering Industry""; ""CHAPTER 6: Helping Homeless Youth""; ""CHAPTER 7: Managing Homelessness""; ""CHAPTER 8: Reflections on an Engaged Ethnography""; ""References""; ""Index""

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