Value of Homelessness - Managing Surplus Life in the United States

Klappentext Craig Willse is assistant professor of cultural studies at George Mason University. He is coeditor of Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death. Zusammenfassung It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness! seeking to prevent and understand it. "The Value of Homelessness!" however! argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences! which shape not only what counts as such but what will--or ultimately won't--be done about it.Through a history of

Product details

• Authors: Craig Willse
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780816693474
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-9347-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Difference Incorporated; Difference Incorporated
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system