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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.
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.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: Of life and fieldwork
The "field" as morally neutral zone
Chapter Two: Shelter
An attack on one is an attack on all
Chapter Three: Hope
Becoming at home
Chapter Four: Codes of honor and protection
Of apes and anarchists
Chapter Five: Total places
The Big Society strikes back
Chapter Six: The enemy within
The return of the savage noble
Chapter Seven: Fragments
Death and sanctions
Chapter Eight: Circle the wagons
Extinction
Epilogue
Index
Reference List
Ethnographic Vignettes:
Trolley Problem
Refugee
Spell
Through the Looking Glass
Clash
Dispatch
Introduction
Chapter One: Of life and fieldwork
The "field" as morally neutral zone
Chapter Two: Shelter
An attack on one is an attack on all
Chapter Three: Hope
Becoming at home
Chapter Four: Codes of honor and protection
Of apes and anarchists
Chapter Five: Total places
The Big Society strikes back
Chapter Six: The enemy within
The return of the savage noble
Chapter Seven: Fragments
Death and sanctions
Chapter Eight: Circle the wagons
Extinction
Epilogue
Index
Reference List
Ethnographic Vignettes:
Trolley Problem
Refugee
Spell
Through the Looking Glass
Clash
Dispatch
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