Helter-shelter : security, legality, and an ethic of care in an emergency shelter /

Helter-shelter : security, legality, and an ethic of care in an emergency shelter /

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Author / Creator:	Ranasinghe, Prashan, 1977- author.
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Homeless persons -- Care -- Moral and ethical aspects. Homeless persons -- Services for -- Moral and ethical aspects. Shelters for the homeless. Shelters for the homeless. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13455090

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ISBN:	9781487515669 1487515669 9781487502614 1487502613 9781487522063 1487522061
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	"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. Prashan Ranasinghe focuses on how the founding ethos of the shelter, an ethic of care, is conceptualized and practiced by examining its successes and failures. Ranasinghe reveals how this logic is diluted and adulterated because of two other important logics, security and legality, which, working alongside, take precedence and trump the import of care. The care that is deployed is heavily legalized and securitized and it is also administered inconsistently and idiosyncratically. As a result, disorder and confusion pervade the shelter. Helter-Shelter offers a unique perspective on the delivery of care, and how this laudable intention faces such daunting challenges."--
Other form:	Print version: Ranasinghe, Prashan. Helter-Shelter : Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2017 9781487522063

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.
ISBN:	9781487515669 1487515669 9781487502614 1487502613 9781487522063 1487522061