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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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HV4505 .W54 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001355709

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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