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Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives?challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace thecomplex and varied attempts to care for homeless people * Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests animportant shift in perspective in the analysis and understanding ofurban homelessness * Emphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of careembodied 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

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'A compelling narrative, moving from 'the street' to structure and back again, to argue that more attention needs to be paid to the neoliberalist welfare state. The authors highlight examples of hope and caring, providing a critical but optimistic view of what can be done by individuals, institutions, and governing bodies. A must read for researchers and students interested in understanding not only homelessness, but also the complexities of governance.' -Lois M. Takahashi, University of California, Los Angeles 'Challenging theories of urban revanchism that deny homeless people agency and neglect the complexities of today's welfare state, Swept Up Lives provides a sharp conceptual corrective and rich portrayal of geographies of homelessness in Britain. Detailed ethnographies and institutional analysis offer a window on homeless subjectivities and voluntary organizations as spaces of caring and active citizenship. I highly recommend this book.' -Jennifer Wolch, University of California, Berkeley 'A well crafted, insightful and timely book that overturns existing orthodoxies, exploring the experience of homelessness in the UK and providing a thought-provoking portrayal of the human face of homelessness.' -Christine Milligan, Lancaster University

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Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the Universityof Exeter. His research interests are in social and culturalgeographies of ethics, rurality, and nature, and he has publishedwidely on issues relating to poverty, homelessness, and socialmarginalisation. Jon May is Professor of Geography at Queen MaryUniversity of London. He has published extensively on thegeographies of homelessness and is the co-author or co-editor offive books including, most recently, Global Cities at Work: NewMigrant Divisions of Labour (2009). Sarah Johnsen is a Research Fellow at the Centre forHousing Policy, University of York. She has published widely in thefield of homelessness and social policy.

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