Overview

This book will appeal to a broad range of readers: social workers, community-based researchers, service providers, policy makers, and students and academics in the fields of Indigenous studies, geography, anthropology, housing studies, social work, and social policy and practice.

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9780774833943

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Within the stories [included in the book] lie accounts of home seeking that paint an important picture of agency, Indigenous home, and the ways that many Indigenous lives are unrecognized and unsupported through dominant social policy approaches. A key strength of the book is that it challenges southern, urban, and non-Indigenous peoples to face what Christensen terms the discomfort of positionality, and to not turn away from the spiritual homelessness of Dene people... Summing Up: Recommended. -- G. Bruyere, University College of the North * CHOICE *

Author Information

Julia Christensen is an assistant professor of geography and planning at Roskilde University in Denmark and a research fellow at the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research in Yellowknife. She is the co-editor of Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and the 2012 winner of the Starkey-Robinson Award for Best Dissertation in Canadian Geography.

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