Swept Up Lives?

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, <i>Swept Up Lives?</i> challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people <ul> <li>Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in perspective in the analysis and understanding of urban homelessness</li> <li>Emphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of care embodied and performed within homeless services spaces</li> <li>Suggests that different homelessness ‘scenes’ develop in different places due to varied historical, political, and cultural responses to the problems faced</li> </ul>