P. Webb
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2014
9781349476893
Homeless Lives in American Cities
Interrogating Myth and Locating Community
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
e druk, 2014
ISBN13: 9781349476893
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impacts of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. It demonstrates how contemporary social work and policy emerge from Victorian cultural attitudes.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349476893
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
PART I: FORMING HOMELESSNESS 1. The Fin-de-Siècle City 2. Anti-Semitic Roots of Homelessness PART II: CONSOLIDATING HOMELESSNESS 3. Discourse and Subjectivation in American Homelessness 4. The Limits of Hobosociality for Social Mooring 5. Homelessness as Disaffiliation PART III: FRAGMENTING HOMELESSNESS 6. Fracturing Consensus: Women and Minorities 7. The Homeless Family and the Return of Myth PART IV: TRANSFORMING HOMELESSNESS 8. The Homeless and the Disneyfication of the City 9. A Decoupled Homelessness: Changing Signification