Who is my neighbor? : communicating and organizing to end homelessness /
Tompkins, Phillip K.
Boulder, Colo. ; London : Paradigm,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-206) and index.
Down and out and on the road -- Christmas in the St. Francis Center : entry, socialization, assimilation -- The history of homelessness : America and Denver -- Mother Teresa, liminality, and abeyance -- Seasons, cycles, and relative deprivation -- Police harassment and degrees of being -- The social construction of killers by means of communication -- The visible hand of compassion -- An existential look at homelessness -- A crisis meeting at the shelter -- The collective discipline of compassion -- Charity versus justice -- The faces of homelessness -- Denver's road home.
Tompkins, Phillip K.
Homelessness
Homeless persons
Homeless persons
Shelters for the homeless