Helter-Shelter : security, legality, and an ethic of care in an emergency shelter / Prashan Ranasinghe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ranasinghe, Prashan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homeless persons.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2017.

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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Locating the shelter, locating an ethic of care

An inside (and closer) look at the shelter : spatial tactics and the aesthetics of an ethic of care

From the mundane to the chaotic : the (un)making of chaos

Gendered security and a gendered ethic of care

The logic of legality and the administration of chaos

From the laughable to the ridiculous : the example of "zero tolerance"

Conclusion

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 20, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4875-1567-7

1-4875-1566-9

OCLC:

1004994779