Hobo jungle : a homeless community in paradise / Michele Wakin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wakin, Michele, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homeless persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

For many decades and for many reasons, people who are homeless have chosen to live in camps or other makeshift settings, even when shelters are available. Is this an act of resistance? Of self-preservation? Or are they simply too addicted, too mentally ill, or too criminal to adapt to the rules and regulations of shelter life? To address these questions, Michele Wakin explores the evolution of unsheltered homelessness through an evocative portrait of a jungle encampment that has endured since the Great Depression in one of the most opulent cities on California's south coast.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. My Welcome to the Jungle

2. A Protected Community: 1940s–1950s

3. Power and Protest: 1980s

4. Danger and Risk: 2000s

5. A Hierarchy of Makeshifts

6. Paradise Revisited

Experiencing Marginal: Fieldwork in the Jungle

Notes

References

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 30, 2022).

ISBN:

1-68585-097-9

OCLC:

1312726365