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Who is my neighbor? : communicating and organizing to end homelessness /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tompkins, Phillip K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2009]
Subjects:
Homelessness > Colorado > Denver.
Homeless persons > Colorado > Denver.
Homeless persons > Services for > Colorado > Denver.
Shelters for the homeless > Colorado > Denver.
Tompkins, Phillip K.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.