Beside One''s Self - Homelessness Felt and Lived

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext An examination of homelessness as a profound, affective phenomenon. Zusammenfassung What is it to feel homeless? How does it feel to be without the orienting geography of home? 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.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Robinson
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2011
• EAN: 9780815632528
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3252-8
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Space, Place, and Society (Har; Space, Place, and Society (Har; Space, Place and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories