Making Better Lives - Hope, Freedom and Home-Making Among People Sleeping Rough in Paris

In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives. The book also follows people through different institutional settings, including a homeless day centre, a needle exchange, a centre for people with alcohol problems and a homeless shelter.

About the author

Johannes Lenhard is the co-director of VentureESG and affi liated lecturer at the University of Cambridge and the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Lenhard, Lenhard Johannes
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781800733671
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-367-1
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology; Wyse Social Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Paris (City), Social and cultural anthropology, Urban communities, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, SDG 10