Where Have All The Homeless Gone?: The Making And Unmaking Of A Crisis - Couverture souple

Marcus, Anthony

 
9781845451011: Where Have All The Homeless Gone?: The Making And Unmaking Of A Crisis
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1845451015 ISBN 13 : 9781845451011
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2005

Synopsis

For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores how public understandings of what constitutes a social crisis are shaped.

Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York City with African Americans and Latinos living in poverty, Where Have All the Homeless Gone? reveals that the homeless "crisis" was driven as much by political misrepresentations of poverty, race, and social difference, as the housing, unemployment, and healthcare problems that caused homelessness and continue to plague American cities.

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À propos de l?auteur

Anthony Marcus is an urban anthropologist from New York City, currently a senior lecturer in International Development at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He has done research in New York, Havana, Mexico City, and Nairobi and published extensively in anthropology and American history.

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845451015
ISBN 13 
9781845451011
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
180
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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