Young Homeless People and Urban Space

Fixed in Mobility
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-59870-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

This ethnographic exploration of contemporary spaces of homelessness takes an expanded view of homeless space, threading together experiences of organizational spaces, routes taken through the city and the occupation of public space. Through engaging with participants' accounts of movement and place, the book argues that young homeless people become fixed in mobility, a condition that impacts on both everyday life and possible futures. Based on an innovative multi-method study of a day centre in London for young homeless people, the book contextualizes spaces of homelessness within the social relations and flows of people that produce the world city. The book considers how the biographical and everyday trajectories of young homeless people intersect with place attachments and forms of governance to produce urban homeless spaces. It provides a new angle on the city made by movement, foregrounding the impact of mobilities shaped by loss, violence and the search for opportunity. The book draws on mental maps, photography, interviews and observation in order to produce an engaging and rich ethnographic account of young homeless people in the city.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: "London is THE City" 1. Almost Home?: The Production of the Day Centre 2. In the Same Boat?: The Production and Negotiation of Super-Diverse Homeless Space 3. Demanding Accounts? 4. Making Tracks, Mobile Lives 5. Surveillance and the Limits of Reorientation 6. The Hostel: Mooring and Meshing 7. Imagined Futures, Precarious Presents and Persistent Pasts. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Jackson is a lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.