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’ develop in different places due to varied historical, political, and cultural responses to the problems faced
  

Keywords: homelessness, homeless city, urban