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Helter-Shelter

Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter

By (author) Prashan Ranasinghe
Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada
Published: 7th Sep 2017
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 25mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN-10: 1487502613
ISBN-13: 9781487502614
Barcode No: 9781487502614
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Helter-Shelter is an ethnographic account of the manner in which an emergency shelter is governed on a daily basis, from the perspective of the personnel who are employed and tasked with providing care. Prashan Ranasinghe focuses on how the founding ethos of the shelter, an ethic of care, is conceptualized and practiced by examining its successes and failures. Ranasinghe reveals how this logic is diluted and adulterated because of two other important logics, security and legality, which, working alongside, take precedence and trump the import of care. The care that is deployed is heavily legalized and securitized and it is also administered inconsistently and idiosyncratically. As a result, disorder and confusion pervade the shelter. Helter-Shelter offers a unique perspective on the delivery of care, and how this laudable intention faces such daunting challenges.

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