Prashan Ranasinghe

Helter-Shelter

Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter

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Produktbeschreibung

Helter-Shelter is an ethnographic account of the manner in which an emergency shelter is governed on a daily basis, from the perspective of the personnel who are employed and tasked with providing care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781487502614
• ISBN-10: 1487502613
• Artikelnr.: 47972387

Autorenporträt

Prashan Ranasinghe is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures (Illustrations)
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Locating the Shelter, Locating an Ethic of Care
3. An Inside (and, Closer) Look at the Shelter: Spatial Tactics and the
Aesthetics of an Ethic of Care
4. From the Mundane to the Chaotic: The (Un)Making of an Ethic of Care
5. The Securitization of an Ethic of Care and the Administration of Chaos
6. Gendered Security and a Gendered Ethic of Care
7. The Logic of Legality and Administration of Chaos
8. From the Laughable to the Ridiculous: The Example of ‘Zero-Tolerance’
9. Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Notes