Homelessness in Global Perspective (Social Issues in Global Perspective)

Discusses the issue of homelessness throughout the world, examining its causes and programs designed to battle the problem

Politics & Social Sciences

Glasser, Irene

Social Sciences

G.K. Hall

The issue of homelessness has commanded increasing public attention in the last decades of the twentieth century. In this scholarly look at homelessness from a world perspective, the plight of homeless men, women, children, and families is viewed from the available research published in books, journals, participatory and advocacy projects, and government reports. Combining ethnographic descriptions of homeless people with analysis of causes and consequences of homelessness, each chapter explores historical material, contemporary case studies and descriptions of homelessness, survival strategies of the homeless, health problems, census efforts, and finally, exemplary programs and policies that address homelessness. Including a list of recommended readings, films, and videos, Homelessness in Global Perspective will be an important resource for students in the fields of anthropology sociology social work, nursing, medicine, urban planning, human services, and Third World studies, as well as governmental and nongovernmental agencies.

More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state. What happens when one hundred guests, which include single mothers, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and the chronically unemployed, representing diverse age groups and ethnicities, come together in the dining room for several hours each day? Irene Glasser challenges the popular assumption that soup kitchens function primarily to provide food for the hungry by refocusing our attention on the social aspects of the dining room. The soup kitchen offers a model of a de-professionalized, nonclinical, nurturing setting that is in contrast to the traditional human services agency.

More Than Bread: Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen

Univ of Alabama Pr

University Alabama Press

As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant building, living in a shelter, or camping out in an abandoned field or on a beach. Anthropologists have a long tradition of working in poverty subcultures and have been able to contribute answers to some of the puzzles of homelessness through their ability to enter the culture of the homeless without some of the preconceptions of other disciplines.  The authors, anthropologists from the U.S.A. and Canada, offer us an analysis of homelessness that is grounded in anthropological research in North America and throughout the world. Both have in-depth experience through working in communities of the homeless and present us withthe results of their own work and with that of their colleagues.

Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective, 1)

Bridgman, Rae

Berghahn Books

As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant building, living in a shelter, or camping out in an abandoned field or on a beach. Anthropologists have a long tradition of working in poverty subcultures and have been able to contribute answers to some of the puzzles of homelessness through their ability to enter the culture of the homeless without some of the preconceptions of other disciplines. The authors, anthropologists from the U.S.A. and Canada, offer us an analysis of homelessness that is grounded in anthropological research in North America and throughout the world. Both have in-depth experience through working in communities of the homeless and present us withthe results of their own work and with that of their colleagues.

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Homelessness in Global Perspective (Social Issues in Global Perspective)

Homelessness in Global Perspective (Social Issues in Global Perspective)

More Than Bread: Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen

More Than Bread: Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen

Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective, 1)

Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective, 1)