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Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter - Softcover

Ranasinghe, Prashan

 
9781487522063: Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1487522061 ISBN 13: 9781487522063
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1487522061
ISBN 13 
9781487522063
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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