Who is my neighbor?
Subtitle: communicating and organizing to end homelessness
By: Phillip K. Tompkins.
Publisher: Paradigm
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781594516474; 9781594516481
Subjects: Tompkins, Phillip K; Homelessness -- Colorado -- Denver; Homeless persons -- Colorado -- Denver; Homeless persons -- Services for -- Denver -- Colorado; Shelters for the homeless -- Colorado -- Denver
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Down and out and on the road; title: Christmas in St. Francis Center : entry, socialization, and assimilation; title: The history of homelessness : America and Denver; title: Mother Teresa, liminality, and abeyance; title: Seasons, cycles, and relative deprivation; title: Police harassment and degrees of being; title: The social construction of killers by means of communication; title: The visible hand of compassion; title: An existential look at homelessness; title: A crisis meeting at the shelter; title: The collective discipline of compassion; title: Charity versus justice; title: The faces of homelessness; title: Denver's road hom.