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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter

Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter

Ranasinghe, Prashan

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral LawGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1487522061
ISBN13: 9781487522063
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Sep 7 2017
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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