Footwork - Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives

Follows the work of a team of outreach workers, tasked to look out for the homeless and others similarly vulnerable, harried and exposed. Hall's fieldwork study encompasses aspects of urban geography, care work and street-level poverty, violence and isolation, to provide a revealing account of lives so rarely acknowledged. --From publisher description.

About the author

Tom Hall is Head of the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He has served as the British Sociological Association (BSA) Treasurer and as Editor of the BSA's flagship journal, Sociology. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a Fellow of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods. He is the author of Better Times Than This (Pluto, 2003) and Footwork (Pluto, 2016).

Summary

An original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city

Product details

• Authors: Tom Hall, Hall Tom
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2016
• EAN: 9780745330570
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3057-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Cardiff, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Poverty & unemployment, South Wales, Social and cultural anthropology, Urban communities, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness, For higher / tertiary / university education