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Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived (Space, Place and Society)
Catherine Robinson
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Description for Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived (Space, Place and Society)
Hardcover. An examination of homelessness as a profound, affective phenomenon. Series: Space, Place, and Society. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
What is it to feel homeless? How does it feel to be without the orienting geography of home? Going beyond homelessness as a housing issue, this book uniquely explores the embodied, emotional experiences of homelessness. In doing so, Robinson reveals much about existing gaps in service responses, in community perceptions, and in the ways in which homelessness most often becomes visible as a problem for policy makers. She argues that the emotional dimension of displacement must be central to contemporary practices of researching, understanding, writing, and responding to homelessness. She situates the issue of homelessness at the nexus of important, ... Read more
What is it to feel homeless? How does it feel to be without the orienting geography of home? Going beyond homelessness as a housing issue, this book uniquely explores the embodied, emotional experiences of homelessness. In doing so, Robinson reveals much about existing gaps in service responses, in community perceptions, and in the ways in which homelessness most often becomes visible as a problem for policy makers. She argues that the emotional dimension of displacement must be central to contemporary practices of researching, understanding, writing, and responding to homelessness. She situates the issue of homelessness at the nexus of important, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Space, Place, and Society
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632528
SKU
V9780815632528
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Ref
99-62
About Catherine Robinson
Catherine Robinson is a senior lecturer of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, researching and teaching in the areas of social and cultural theory, qualitative research methods, and the philosophy of social research. Her publications include Accommodation in Crisis: Forgotten Women in Western Sydney with R. E. Searby.
Reviews for Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived (Space, Place and Society)
A powerful journey through the experiences of homelessness that sets a new scholarly standard for its synthesis of insight and empathy. The book documents and defines new ways of understanding homelessness that are sensitive to the many ways it is embodied. Robinson has crafted a deeply compassionate yet theoretically sophisticated vantage point from which to embrace the trauma of being ... Read more