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Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter - Couverture souple

Ranasinghe, Prashan

 
9781487522063: Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter
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ISBN 10 : 1487522061 ISBN 13 : 9781487522063
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2017

Synopsis

Helter-Shelter is an ethnographic account of the manner in which an emergency shelter is governed on a daily basis, from the perspective of the personnel who are employed and tasked with providing care.

Prashan Ranasinghe focuses on how the founding ethos of the shelter, an ethic of care, is conceptualized and practiced by examining its successes and failures. Ranasinghe reveals how this logic is diluted and adulterated because of two other important logics, security and legality, which, working alongside, take precedence and trump the import of care. The care that is deployed is heavily legalized and securitized and it is also administered inconsistently and idiosyncratically. As a result, disorder and confusion pervade the shelter.

Helter-Shelter offers a unique perspective on the delivery of care, and how this laudable intention faces such daunting challenges.

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À propos de l'auteur

Prashan Ranasinghe is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1487522061
ISBN 13 
9781487522063
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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