Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Community in Paradise

Author:   Michele Wakin
Publisher:   Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9781626378711


Pages:   210
Publication Date:   30 January 2020
Format:   Hardback
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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, the author 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.

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Author:   Michele Wakin
Publisher:   Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9781626378711


ISBN 10:   1626378711
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   30 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

My Welcome to the Jungle.  A Protected Community: 1940s–1950s.  Power and Protest: 1980s.  Danger and Risk: 2000s.  A Hierarchy of Makeshifts.  Paradise Revisited.

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Excellent.... Wakin goes beyond earlier work to explode traditional ideas of how homelessness has been conceptualized.


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Michele Wakin is professor of sociology at Bridgewater State University.

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