Beside One's Self
Homelessness Felt and Lived
Publication Year: 2011
Published by: Syracuse University Press
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Front Matter
Contents
Preface
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pp. ix-xviii
The first day of our holiday brought rain. As I stood on the balcony of the rented apartment watching the drizzle thicken along the coast I was alight with rage. I had completed the project fi eldwork only to be faced with this. Three weeks of hot sun as I melted in boarding houses, trudged...
Acknowledgments
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pp. xix-
This book emerges in a large part from my experiences working on a number of funded projects on homelessness since 2002. Though I do not explicitly develop material from all of them here, they include “Understanding Iterative Homelessness: The Case of People with Mental Disorders"...
Introduction
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pp. 1-22
In confronting the incompleteness of my past research writings, I at once confront what I have come to see as an “emotional retreat” (Chamberlayne 2004, 347) in homelessness research. This is a retreat Prue Chamberlayne (ibid., 337) traces in the delivery of services to homeless...
1 Corporeography
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pp. 23-50
In this chapter, I aim to give a fuller account of the way in which I think my gut feelings about homelessness have formed through corporeal engagement. I do so as a disruption to social scientifi c approximations of homelessness and with an insistence that engagement in...
2 Beside One’s Self
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pp. 51-78
It was my shift to biography that fi nally allowed a more complete engagement with the trauma that accumulates in homeless people’s lives. By the start of my biographic research on homelessness and mental disorders in 2002, I had also been doing relief shifts as a youth accommodation...
3 “Doing the Geographical”
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pp. 79-104
Though displacement may begin with dislocation from the psychological and corporeal territories that constitute somatic geography, also triggered in homelessness are trajectories of a broader physical placelessness. Not only do homeless people experience traumatic places but they...
4 Outside Community
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pp. 105-129
As Josie so bluntly summarized, the lack of access to spacefull and timefull place indelibly marked young homeless people as alien. Feeling “abnormal,” estranged, unable to dwell in place and time in the often doubled contexts of trauma and transience, young people routinely experienced...
CONCLUSION
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pp. 130-148
“I won’t look while I’m doing this,” she said, “as I’ll bias myself.” Her face became distant as she focused her seeing self through the hands that palpated my belly. What could she have seen anyway? There was yet opaque skin that I’d stared at often enough myself. I imagined the small...
Bibliography
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pp. 149-162
Index
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pp. 163-170
E-ISBN-13: 9780815651352
E-ISBN-10: 081565135X
Print-ISBN-13: 9780815632528
Print-ISBN-10: 0815632525
Page Count: 200
Publication Year: 2011
