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Reckoning With Homelessness

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Description for Reckoning With Homelessness Paperback. Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHMC; JKS; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.

"It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without food, without shelter, without security."—homeless woman, Grand Central Station, winter

"Homelessness is a routine fact of life on the margins. Materially, it emerges out of a tangled but unmysterious mix of factors: scarce housing, poorly planned and badly implemented policies of relocation and support, dismal prospects of work, exhausted or alienated kin.... Any outreach worker could tell you that list would be incomplete without one more: how misery can come to prefer its own company."—from the book

Kim Hopper has dedicated his career ... Read more

Beginning with his own introduction to the problem in New York, Hopper uses ethnography, literature, history, and activism to place homelessness into historical context and to trace the process by which homelessness came to be recognized as an issue. He tells the largely neglected story of homelessness among African Americans and vividly portrays various sites of public homelessness, such as airports. His accounts of life on the streets make for powerful reading.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Anthropology of Contemporary Issues S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801488344
SKU
V9780801488344
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About Kim Hopper
Kim Hopper is Research Scientist at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research and Lecturer at the Columbia University Schools of Public Health and Law. He is a cofounder of both the New York and the National Coalitions for the Homeless. He is the coauthor of Sociology In Medicine, Third Edition, and coeditor of the upcoming Recovery from Schizophrenia: ... Read more

Reviews for Reckoning With Homelessness
Reckoning with Homelessness... has to be among the best-written, most elegantly expressed works of urban anthropology ever.... Hopper's ethnographic ramble through the makeshift haunts of the world's richest city is inevitably ironic, bitterly painful, unfailingly informative.
Social Service Review
A frequently cited authority on the subject... Hopper is well versed in public policy efforts and has distinctive views ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Reckoning With Homelessness


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