Homelessness - 9781861341679

HomelessnessExploring the new terrain\nAuthor(s): Patricia Kennett, Alex Marsh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781861341679, 978-1861341679\nSynopsis\nThe issue of homelessness has become extremely important in policy debates during the 1990s. Yet analysis that links the phenomenon of homelessness to wider debates about the changing social and economic environment remains relatively underdeveloped.\n\nThis important new book brings together contemporary theoretical debates and original empirical research in order to explore the nature, experience and impact of social change in the new 'landscape of precariousness', in which new sets of risks and uncertainties have emerged.\n\nIt adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, which is essential in developing a more subtle understanding of both the complex processes leading to, and the experience of, homelessness.\n\nCentral to contemporary theory and practice is the enhan.