Families on the Edge
Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
19 September 2023
Summary
An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and policies of care that fail them.
Families on the Edge is an ethnographic portrait of families in rural and small-town New England who are often undercut by the very systems that are set up to help them. In this book, author and medical anthropologist Elizabeth Carpenter-Song draws on a decade of ethnographic research to chart the struggles of a cohort of families…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262546188 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262546183 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Carpenter-Song |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Culture and Psychiatry |
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Critics Review
“Families on the Edge is a gripping exploration of the way homelessness and its aftermath is experienced by families in a rural area of New England.”—Ethos“Carpenter-Song’s writing is lucid and evocative, which makes the book a good choice for undergraduate courses in medical anthropology, cultural psychiatry, psychological anthropology, and social work.”—Medical Anthropology Quarterly“Elizabeth Carpenter-Song’s Families on the Edge offers a gripping, tragic, and analytically powerful account of five families’ experiences of housing insecurity in rural New England. It fills an important gap in our local and national understanding of homelessness. It fundamentally challenges the theoretical and policy relevance of homogenizing these families’ experiences with those of the urban, unsheltered, marginalized, and frequently racialized people who comprise both the literature and public imagination.”—Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
About The Author
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song is currently Research Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Her work has been published in journals ranging from Ethos to Psychiatric Services to Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless.
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