Description

• Title:
  Homes of the Homeless: A Study of Life in Crisis
• Creator:
  Kuźma, Inga B.
• Contributor:
  University of Łódź, Faculty of Philosophy and History, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of Culture
• Description:
  The book presents the image of home as experienced and expressed by the men and women who are affected by the crisis of homelessness and live in specialized institutions. The author presents her own experience in carrying out research in total institutions and, above all, she focuses on describing and interpreting the stories of people from homeless centers who speak about the ups and downs of their lives. The researcher draws her attention on the stereotypically idealised image of home, which shows its real face when it is seen as a social construct, taking into account the gender perspective as well as other cultural and individual contexts. The book is addressed to people who have a social sensibility; to people working with and for the men and women who are affected by the homelessness crisis; who work and/or managed the aid centers and who are also the volunteers in different type of institutions and associations addressed for the people in need; to the students of social and humanistic science.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by Inga B. Kuźma, Łódź 2019; © Copyright by University of Łódź, Łódź 2019; © Copyright for this edition by Jagiellonian University Press;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2024.08.13;
  2019.09.03
• Type:
  Book
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Subject:
  homeless;
  homelessness crisis;
  volunteers
• Identifier:
  Kuźma I., Homes of the Homeless: A Study of Life in Crisis, Jagiellonian University Press, https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-368-7;
  978-83-8142-368-7;
  978-83-233-4610-4;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/52954 ;
  978-83-8142-369-4;
  978-83-233-9961-2;
  10.18778/8142-368-7
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  image