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The value of homelessness : managing surplus life in the United States / Craig Willse.

By: Series: Difference incorporatedPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]Description: ix, 213 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780816693474 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816693481 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.5/920973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV4505 .W54 2015
Contents:
Introduction: housing and other monsters -- Surplus life, or race and death in neoliberal times -- Homelessness as method: social science and the racial order -- From pathology to population: managing homelessness in the United States -- Governing through numbers: HUD and the databasing of homelessness -- The invention of chronic homelessness -- Conclusion: surplus life at the limits of the good.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: housing and other monsters -- Surplus life, or race and death in neoliberal times -- Homelessness as method: social science and the racial order -- From pathology to population: managing homelessness in the United States -- Governing through numbers: HUD and the databasing of homelessness -- The invention of chronic homelessness -- Conclusion: surplus life at the limits of the good.

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