The value of homelessness : managing surplus life in the United States

The value of homelessness : managing surplus life in the United States / Craig Willse.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willse, Craig, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Series:Difference incorporated.
Subjects:
Homelessness > United States.
Homeless persons > United States.
Housing policy > United States.
United States > Economic conditions > 2009-
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: housing and other monsters
  • Surplus life, or race and death in neoliberal times
  • Homelessness as method: social science and the racial order
  • From pathology to population: managing homelessness in the United States
  • Governing through numbers: HUD and the databasing of homelessness
  • The invention of chronic homelessness
  • Conclusion: surplus life at the limits of the good.

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