Swept Up Lives?: Re-envisioning the Homeless City

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people

• Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in perspective in the analysis and understanding of urban homelessness
• Emphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of care embodied and performed within homeless services spaces
• Suggests that different homelessness ‘scenes’ devel...