Professional lives, personal struggles / edited by Trenna Valado and Randall Amster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Valado, Trenna, 1972-

Amster, Randall.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homelessness.

Homeless persons.

Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first book published that specifically examines questions of ethics and advocacy that arise in conducting research on homelessness, exploring the issues through the deeply personal experiences of some of the field's leading scholars. By examining the central queries from a broad range of perspectives, the authors presented here draw upon years of rich investigations to generate a framework that will be instructive for researchers across a wide spectrum of areas of inquiry.

Contents:

Introduction: rediscovering homelessness

and ourselves / Randall Amster

Advocacy and identity

Social justice, ethics, and advocacy in street research : a personal accounting / Talmadge Wright

The advocate researcher / Rob Rosenthal

Homelessness and drag / Kathleen Arnold

Writing the streets : dilemmas of depiction / Trenna Valado

Relationships and ethics

Planning and managing ethical dilemmas in homelessness research / Michael Rowe

A "buddy researcher" prospects, limitations, and ethical considerations in ethnographic research on homeless people in berlin / Jürgen von Mahs

Ethics and studying homelessness : tales from the field / Kurt Borchard

Weapons of the weak, by the weak, and for the weak : negotiating power between and among homeless persons and service providers / Julie Adkins

Research and transformation

Do we really need more research on homelessness? : an autoethnographic exploration of ethics, advocacy, and exasperation / Vin Lyon-Callo

Homelessness as "internal displacement" : scholarship and activism in post-Katrina New Orleans / Randall Amster

Do (no) harm : homelessness and personal transformation / David Cook

On the politics and ethics of "using" "the homeless" in social justice research / Don Mitchell and Lynn Staeheli

Conclusion: synthesizing the personal and professional / Trenna Valado

Bibliography

Index

About the contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-31375-5

1-283-52388-4

9786613836335

0-7391-7429-0

OCLC:

809537791