Homelessness

Patricia Kennett is a lecturer at the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. Alex Marsh is a Senior Research Fellow at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK.

This book offers a collection of interesting, diverse and up-to-date papers on the changing nature of homelessness in the UK and elsewhere. It will certainly become a key text for the foreseeable future. Housing Studies.

• Contents: Exploring the new terrain ~ Alex Marsh and Patricia Kennett; The new landscape of precariousness ~ Ray Forrest; Homelessness, citizenship and social exclusion ~ Patricia Kennett; Homelessness in rural areas: an invisible issue? ~ Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne and Rebekah Widdowfield; A home is where the heart is: engendering notions of homelessness ~ Sophie Watson; Theorising homelessness and 'race' ~ Malcolm Harrison; The criminalisation of homelessness, begging and street living ~ Gary Fooks and Christina Pantazis; The homelessness legislation as a vehicle for marginalisation: making an example out of the paedophile ~ David Cowan and Rose Gilroy; Old and homeless: a double jeopardy ~ Derek Hawes; Homelessness in Russia: the scope of the problem and the remedies in place ~ Yana Beigulenko; Implementing 'joined-up thinking': multiagency services for single homeless people in Bristol ~ Jenny Pannell and Siân Parry; Models of resettlement for the homeless in the European Union ~ Brian Harvey.