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, M…
"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, …
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, M…
The Philosophy of Homelessnessis borne out of a five-year ethnographic research project involving being with a group of chronically homeless people in Chester. A small city located in the northwest of the UK, Chester is economically supported by its heritage and the tourism that…
"[This book] is borne out of a five-year ethnographic research project involving being with a group of chronically homeless people in Chester. A small city located in the northwest of the UK, Chester is economically supported by its heritage and the tourism that this attracts. I…
The Philosophy of Homelessness is borne out of a five-year ethnographic research project involving being with a group of chronically homeless people in Chester. A small city located in the northwest of the UK, Chester is economically supported by its heritage and the tourism tha…
Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, …
Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected.' A Biography of Loneliness' is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and exp…
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[This book] provides ... historical context on hoboes and the army of dispossessed now on America's streets. [In the book, the author's] study of tramps and migrant workers brings vividly to life an important element of American society that has too often been neglected by histo…