Making Better Lives

Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris

Johannes Lenhard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-367-1 (ISBN)

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In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives. The book also follows people through different institutional settings, including a homeless day centre, a needle exchange, a centre for people with alcohol problems and a homeless shelter.

Johannes Lenhard is an ethnographer of venture capital and homelessness and currently the Centre Coordinator of the Max Planck Centre Cambridge for the Study of Ethics, the Economy and Social Change.

List of Figures

Preface: A Personal Down and Out in London and Paris

Acknowledgements

Part I: Introductions

Introduction: People Sleeping Rough at the Gare du Nord

Frame: Hoping for Home

Part II: Short-term Hopes – Surviving the Street

Chapter 1. Labour With, Off and On the Street

Chapter 2. Habiter: Making Shelter when Sleeping Rough

Chapter 3. Addiction Time: Cutting Through Time with Alcohol and Drugs

Part III: Towards the Future, Assisted

Chapter 4. Ruptures from Addiction Time: Institutional Support at Sun and EMO

Chapter 5. Between Relationships and the Projet de Vie: Social Work at Freedom

Chapter 6. Towards a Room of One’s Own: Living in ‘Ruly’ Temporary Accommodation

Conclusion: Better Lives on the Street

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-367-4 / 1800733674
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-367-1 / 9781800733671
Zustand	Neuware