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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader: Ethical Research in a Shelter -- Introduction -- Chapter One. "Cities" within a City -- Chapter Two. Living Homeless: Jimmy's Story -- Chapter Three. Tom's Story -- Chapter Four. Sarah's Story -- Chapter Five. Chronically Homeless in Canada -- Chapter Six. StreetCity: The Vision -- Chapter Seven. Town Council -- Chapter Eight. StreetCity Too: Strachan House -- Chapter Nine. Shelter, Housing, House, and Home -- Chapter Ten. Lessons from StreetCity and Strachan House -- Epilogue -- Timeline -- Press Coverage on StreetCity and Strachan House (selected) -- References -- Index

"Cities" within a citiy -- Living homeless : Jimmy's story -- Tom's story -- Sarah's story -- Chronically homeless in Canada -- StreetCity : the vision -- Town council -- StreetCity too : Strachan House -- Shelter, housing, house, and home -- Lessons from StreetCity and Strachan House.

In this groundbreaking work, urban anthropologist Rae Bridgman, in careful and intimate detail, explores the perspectives of the women who work and live at Savard's, a unique shelter for homeless women. Bridgman uses the design and development of Savard's - a housing model developed by women for women - as an opportunity to document the project's original vision and what happened once it opened. There are few rules at Savard's. Women may come and go as they wish, and referrals to other services are made only when a woman has indicated interest in taking action on her own behalf. It is a model that aims to provide a safe haven for the chronically homeless. The study traces the evolution of this type of shelter, providing qualitative research and useful analysis for academics, policy-makers, service providers, and activists. Based on many hours of participant observation as well as interviews and staff records, Safe Haven presents a distinct picture of the chronically homeless and those on the frontlines of this lifesaving service.

In this case study I present preliminary findings on the development of Eva's Phoenix—a pilot project designed to provide housing and employment‐training opportunities for homeless youth in Toronto, Canada. I focus on the construction‐training program for youth and explore some of the tensions that can arise in a project of this nature. These include consulting youth about the project's directions and facilitating their participation, representational authority in relation to how the project is promoted, and the need to reconcile different values and expectations for delivering the program on the part of partnering organizations and the youth themselves. I challenge perceptions of welfare and welfare reform in relation to youth and offer some insights into what types of services and interventions can potentially help homeless youth, [homelessness, youth, housing, employment training]

As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant building, living in a shelter, or camping out in an abandoned field or on a beach. Anthropologists have a long tradition of working in poverty subcultures and have been able to contribute answers to some of the puzzles of homelessness through their ability to enter the culture of the homeless without some of the preconceptions of other disciplines. The authors, anthropologists from the U.S.A. and Canada, offer us an analysis of homelessness that is grounded in anthropological research in North America and throughout the world. Both have in-depth experience through working in communities of the homeless and present us withthe results of their own work and with that of their colleagues

Feminist Fields offers a rich and varied portrait of both the current work in feminist anthropology and future possibilities for dialogue between feminism and anthropology. Contributors to the book present critical analyses of a broad range of ethnographic topics: national feminism, gender and identity formation, cultural continuity, ethnographic authority, ethics and representation, empowerment and resistance. Here, young practitioners alongside more established scholars share their theoretical insights, bringing them to life through first-person narratives and stories. Throughout, there is a clear sense of the intellectual inspiration to be had from the practice of feminist anthropology and its emphasis on the power of thoughtful reflexivity in fieldwork and writing practices. Also recognized is an urgent need to bring forward the perspectives of those whose knowledge has been forgotten, ignored, or actively silenced