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Who is my neighbor? : communicating and organizing to end homelessness / Phillip K. Tompkins.
Van Pelt Library HV4046.D45 T65 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tompkins, Phillip K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homelessness--Colorado--Denver.
- Homelessness.
- Homeless persons--Colorado--Denver.
- Homeless persons.
- Homeless persons--Services for--Colorado--Denver.
- Shelters for the homeless--Colorado--Denver.
- Shelters for the homeless.
- Tompkins, Phillip K.
- Homeless persons--Services for.
- Colorado--Denver.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2009]
- Contents:
- Down and out and on the road
- Christmas in the St. Francis Center : entry, socialization, assimilation
- The history of homelessness : America and Denver
- Mother Teresa, liminality, and abeyance
- Seasons, cycles, and relative deprivation
- Police harassment and degrees of being
- The social construction of killers by means of communication
- The visible hand of compassion
- An existential look at homelessness
- A crisis meeting at the shelter
- The collective discipline of compassion
- Charity versus justice
- The faces of homelessness
- Denver's road home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594516474
- 1594516472
- 9781594516481
- 1594516480
- OCLC:
- 259754340
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