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ISBN: PB: 9781912808281

University of Chicago Press, HAU

November 2019

290 pp.

22.8x15.2 cm

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£28,00
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Ethics of Space

Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England

Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements are deemed less than fully human as they struggle to find a place where they can symbolically and physically exist. Written by an anthropologist who accidentally found herself homeless, "The Ethics of Space" is an unprecedented account of what happens when homeless people organize to occupy abandoned properties.   Set against the backdrop of economic crisis, austerity, and a disintegrating British state, Steph Grohmann tells the story of a flourishing squatter community in the city of Bristol and how it was eventually outlawed by the state. The first ethnography of homelessness done by a researcher who was formally homeless throughout fieldwork, this volume explores the intersection between spatial existence, subjectivity, and ethics. The result is a book that rethinks how ethical views are shaped and constructed through our own spatial existences.

About the Author

Steph Grohmann is a research fellow at the Centre for Homeless and Inclusion Health at the University of Edinburgh. She is interested in ethical life, spatial justice, and using anthropological tools in the struggle to end homelessness in Britain and beyond.