Man in the Dog Park (eBook)

Coming Up Close to Homelessness

Cathy A. Small (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
200 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-4879-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life.Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless. Interviews and encounters with dozens of homeless people lead us into a world that most have never seen. We travel as an intimate observer into the places that many homeless frequent, including a community shelter, a day labor agency, a panhandling corner, a pawn shop, and a HUD housing office.Through these personal stories, we witness the obstacles that homeless people face, and the ingenuity it takes to negotiate life without a home. The Man in the Dog Park points to the ways that our own cultural assumptions and blind spots are complicit in US homelessness and contribute to the degree of suffering that homeless people face. At the same time, Small, Kordosky and Moore show us how our own sense of connection and compassion can bring us into touch with the actions that will lessen homelessness and bring greater humanity to the experience of those who remain homeless.The raw emotion of The Man in the Dog Park will forever change your appreciation for, and understanding of, the homeless life so many deal with outside of the limelight of contemporary society.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2020
• Co-Autor: Jason Kordosky, Ross Moore
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b&w line drawing
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Affordable Housing • Anthropology • authenticity • Autobiography • Biography • books for social workers • Community • Community Issues • Connection • Contemporary Society • Cultural Anthropology • flagstaff arizona • homeless book • homeless life • Homelessness • homelessness,homeless shelters,homeless life,poverty, affordable housing, homeless book,maninthedogparkfilm • homelessness, homeless shelters, poverty, ethnography, affordable housing, stigma, veterans, compassion • Homeless Shelters • impoverished • mutual aid • Nonprofits • personal stories • Poverty • poverty studies • social issues • Social Structures • social workers • study of homelessness • unhoused • urban studies • US homelessness
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-4879-3 / 1501748793
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-4879-0 / 9781501748790