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The Ethics of Space – Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England

Steph Grohmann

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English
HAU Books
01 March 2020
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.

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Imprint:   HAU Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 227mm,  Width: 160mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   434g
ISBN:   9781912808281
ISBN 10:   1912808285
Pages:   290
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Steph Grohmann is a research affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. She is interested in ethical life, spatial justice, and using anthropological tools in the struggle to end homelessness in Britain and beyond.

Reviews for The Ethics of Space – Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England

[A] powerful new book . . . . The Ethics of Space makes a number of wide-ranging arguments about access to and exclusion from space, and the UK's largely unchanging patterns of land ownership. But it also provides many vivid glimpses of Grohmann's own experiences. . . . It is one of the striking features of Grohmann's writing that the people she describes, like characters in novels but unlike the individuals used in much academic writing to illustrate a point, feel three-dimensional and are capable of surprising the reader. --Matthew Reisz Times Higher Education


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