Paul Cloke & Jon May 
Swept Up Lives? [PDF ebook] 
Re-envisioning the Homeless City

Figures and Tables vi
Series Editors’ Preface vii
Acknowledgements viii
Abbreviations x
1 Introduction: Re-envisioning the Homeless City 1
2 From Neoliberalization to Postsecularism 22
3 Tactics and Performativities in the Homeless City 61
4 ‘He’s Not Homeless, He Shouldn’t Have Any Food’: Outdoor Relief in a Postsecular Age 92
5 ‘It’s Like You Can Almost Be Normal Again’: Refuge and Resource in Britain’s Day Centres 117
6 ‘It’s Been a Tough Night, Huh?’ Hopelessness (and Hope) in Britain’s Homeless Hostels 147
7 Big City Blues: Uneven Geographies of Provision in the Homeless City 181
8 On the Margins of the Homeless City: Caring for Homeless People in Rural Areas 211
9 Conclusions 241
References 255
Index 274

Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the University
of Exeter. His research interests are in social and cultural
geographies of ethics, rurality, and nature, and he has published
widely on issues relating to poverty, homelessness, and social
marginalisation.
Jon May is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary
University of London. He has published extensively on the
geographies of homelessness and is the co-author or co-editor of
five books including, most recently, Global Cities at Work: New
Migrant Divisions of Labour (2009).
Sarah Johnsen is a Research Fellow at the Centre for
Housing Policy, University of York. She has published widely in the
field of homelessness and social policy.