Swept Up Lives: Re-envisioning the Homeless City (RGS-IBG Book Series)

304 Pages·2010·5.72 MB·English

by  Paul Cloke, Jon May, Sarah Johnsen

Swept Up Lives?
Re-envisioning the Homeless City
Paul Cloke, Jon May
and Sarah Johnsen
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
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Swept Up Lives?
Re-envisioning the Homeless City
Paul Cloke, Jon May
and Sarah Johnsen
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cloke, Paul J.
Swept up lives? : re-envisioning the homeless city / Paul Cloke, Jon May and Sarah Johnsen.
p. cm. – (RGS-IBG book series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-5386-7 (hbk. : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-1-4051-5387-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Homelessness. 2. Homeless persons–Social conditions. 3. Urban policy. I. May,
Jon. II. Johnsen, Sarah. III. Title.
HV4493.C56 2010
362.5–dc22
2009052086
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Set in 10/12pt Plantin by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India
Printed in Malaysia
1 2010
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Contents
Figures and Tables vi
Series Editors’ Preface vi
Acknowledgements vi
Abbreviations x
1 Introduction: Re-envisioning the Homeless City 1
2 From Neoliberalization to Postsecularism 22
3 Tactics and Performativities in the Homeless City 61
4 ‘He’s Not Homeless, He Shouldn’t Have Any Food’: Outdoor
Relief in a Postsecular Age 92
5 ‘It’s Like You Can Almost Be Normal Again’: Refuge
and Resource in Britain’s Day Centres 117
6 ‘It’s Been a Tough Night, Huh?’ Hopelessness
(and Hope) in Britain’s Homeless Hostels 147
7 Big City Blues: Uneven Geographies of Provision in the
Homeless City 181
8 On the Margins of the Homeless City: Caring for
Homeless People in Rural Areas 211
9 Conclusions 241
References 25
Index 274
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Figures and Tables
FIGURES
3.1 Hotel car park 73
3.2 Tent 75
3.3 Kebab van 79
3.4 Bouncer friends 81
3.5 Begging pitch 82
3.6 The steps 86
5.1 Day centre 126
5.2 Waking up 131
5.3 Closed 138
5.4 Susan 142
6.1 Shelter 154
6.2 Exterior of hostel 166
6.3 Hostel room 167
6.4 Father’s Day card 169
6.5 Hostel hallway 171
TABLES
6.1 Projected number of emergency accommodation projects
operating (outside of London), 1945–2001 154
7.1 Top and bottom ten towns and cities in England, Wales
and Scotland according to provision of direct access bed
spaces in 2002 182
7.2 Benington’s emergency services for single homeless
people in 2003 186
7.3 Steeltown’s emergency services for single homeless people
in 2003 188
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Series Editors’ Preface
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Acknowledgements
The research on which this book is based was funded by the Economic and
Social Research Council (ESRC Award R000238996 Homeless Places: the
uneven geographies of emergency provision for single homeless people). We
are very grateful for the support.
Some of the material presented in this book has appeared elsewhere in
different forms and we would like to thank the editors and referees of the
following journals for their advice and guidance: Antipode; Area; Environment
and Planning A; Gender, Place and Culture; Geoforum; Health and Place; Journal
of Rural Studies; Policy and Politics; Social and Cultural Geography; Society and
Space. Numerous friends and colleagues have also listened to various pres-
entations, or read drafts, of the material used here. They are too numerous
to mention all by name, but we would especially like to thank Chris Philo at
the University of Glasgow, Mark Goodwin at the University of Exeter, Justin
Beaumont at the University of Groningen and Miles Ogborn and Isabel
Dyck at Queen Mary University of London. Due to Paul’s back injury and
subsequent surgery, it has taken much longer than we anticipated to get the
final manuscript of this book to press and we would especially like to thank
the Human Geography Editor of the RGS-IBG Book Series, Kevin Ward,
for his patience and support.
On a more personal note, Paul would once again like to acknowledge the
utterly wonderful and irreplaceable context of love and support provided by
Viv, Liz and Will. Without you, all this would be empty and meaningless. He
would also like to thank Mary and Jim, Helen and Mike, Rachel and Rob
and Clare and Stu for their special friendship both in Bristol and in deepest
Devon.
Jon would like to thank Chris and Lorna, whose unwavering support to
both him and the family over the years means more than he can say; Di and
Rog, whose example continues to inspire and who have themselves started
to volunteer at a local day centre (good on you!); the New Zealand Whanau
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