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

Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance : : Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry / / Vincent Lyon-Callo.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Lyon-Callo, Vincent,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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: Ariel’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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