Footwork: Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives - Brossura

Hall, Tom

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0745330576 ISBN 13: 9780745330570

Casa editrice: Pluto Press, 2016

Riassunto

Footwork offers an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. It shows how urban modernisation, development and politics impact on the hidden lives of people living and working on the streets. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, this book reveals the stories of the vulnerable and isolated - people living in the city we often choose to ignore.
 
Footwork follows the work of a team of outreach workers, tasked to look out for the homeless and others similarly vulnerable, harried and exposed. Tom Hall’s fieldwork study encompasses aspects of urban geography, care work and street-level poverty, violence and isolation, to provide a revealing and important account of lives so rarely acknowledged. 

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Recensione:

'A rare glimpse into the physical world and urban spaces of rough sleepers who live in the city though often unacknowledged. A sensitive and evocative account.' --Professor Setha Low, City University of New York

'A brilliant, insightful and at times very funny portrait of hidden lives and those who care for them. This is a beautifully written and erudite book about city life that exudes a deep but irreverent sense of humanity.' --Les Back, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London

'Footwork combines extensive ethnographic research and scholarship, poetic writing and remarkable empathy to illuminate the lives of those who survive and sleep on city streets and to show brilliantly the mobile, skilful, humane ways in which care and outreach workers seek relate to and help them. It confirms Tom Hall's position as the leading sociological flaneur of our time. This superb book is essential reading for urban social scientists, policy makers and practitioners concerned with the most vulnerable who dwell at our feet.' --Professor Harry Ferguson, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham

L'autore:

Tom Hall is a lecturer at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences, where he teaches sociology, urban theory, and ethnography. He is the author of Better Times Than This, also published by Pluto Press.

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• Editore: Pluto Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0745330576
• ISBN 13: 9780745330570
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272