J Lenhard
Biographic Data
| ID | 41038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Lenhard |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lenhard |
| SIGNATURE | LENHARD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2532-3415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Choose, judge, and move on
For the last decade, the UK government has followed an agenda of "personalizing care." Based on ethnographic material from three hostels supporting homeless people with mental health issues in central London, I analyze tensions in the everyday implementation of this policy agenda: on the one hand, using tools such as personal budgets, personalization was practiced by providing people with short-term, concrete choices-between different care worker…
Of not passing
People experiencing homelessness in the UK were unconditionally offered housing (and support) from the beginning of the first lockdown in March 2020. For many, that meant ‘(re)entering’ the support system and having a chance to ‘move on’ to longer-term housing. This beneficial effect of some of the policy reactions to the pandemic on people experiencing homelessness was unexpected. On the flip side, however, particularly for people struggling wit…
The economy of hot air – habiter , warmth and security among homeless people at the Gare du Nord in Paris
Many of my rough sleeping informants were competing for surface-space on the hot air vents emanating heat around Paris’ Gare du Nord. During the winter months in particular, warm space was a scarce commodity and the hot air vents were an ideal starting point for shelter-making, or habiter. Introducing you to Ma, Miles and a group of Polish people I will demonstrate how my informants ordered the space around the vents, personalised it with physica…
Home making without a home
The hopeful labour of begging - Homeless people's struggles for a better life in Paris
Both in public imagination and scholarship, begging is often associated with passivity, waiting, inactivity and as such defined as the opposite of 'real work'. During two years of fieldwork with people sleeping rough in Paris, I observed my informants to the contrary describe begging as their occupation. In this paper, I present an ethnographically grounded argument that the people experiencing homelessness I accompanied over the course of two ye…
Whose responsibility? Covid‐19 in a homeless shelter in the UK
I. Gershon, Down and Out in the New Economy
A number of recent monographs have been focused on how work is organized and experienced today in the new economy, enabled through digital communication via apps and smartphones. Work by Ravenelle, Rosenblat and Gershon portrays both blue collar and white-collar labour, often as part of the so-called gig economy. With their ethnographic focus, the volumes complement the widespread media critique of Uber, AirBnB and Co. with a large variety of det…
The hopeful labour of begging - Homeless people's struggles for a better life in Paris
Both in public imagination and scholarship, begging is often associated with passivity, waiting, inactivity and as such defined as the opposite of 'real work'. During two years of fieldwork with people sleeping rough in Paris, I observed my informants to the contrary describe begging as their occupation. In this paper, I present an ethnographically grounded argument that the people experiencing homelessness I accompanied over the course of two ye…
Home making without a home
The economy of hot air – habiter , warmth and security among homeless people at the Gare du Nord in Paris
Many of my rough sleeping informants were competing for surface-space on the hot air vents emanating heat around Paris’ Gare du Nord. During the winter months in particular, warm space was a scarce commodity and the hot air vents were an ideal starting point for shelter-making, or habiter. Introducing you to Ma, Miles and a group of Polish people I will demonstrate how my informants ordered the space around the vents, personalised it with physica…
Whose responsibility? Covid‐19 in a homeless shelter in the UK
I. Gershon, Down and Out in the New Economy
A number of recent monographs have been focused on how work is organized and experienced today in the new economy, enabled through digital communication via apps and smartphones. Work by Ravenelle, Rosenblat and Gershon portrays both blue collar and white-collar labour, often as part of the so-called gig economy. With their ethnographic focus, the volumes complement the widespread media critique of Uber, AirBnB and Co. with a large variety of det…
The hopeful labour of begging - Homeless people's struggles for a better life in Paris
Both in public imagination and scholarship, begging is often associated with passivity, waiting, inactivity and as such defined as the opposite of 'real work'. During two years of fieldwork with people sleeping rough in Paris, I observed my informants to the contrary describe begging as their occupation. In this paper, I present an ethnographically grounded argument that the people experiencing homelessness I accompanied over the course of two ye…
Of not passing
People experiencing homelessness in the UK were unconditionally offered housing (and support) from the beginning of the first lockdown in March 2020. For many, that meant ‘(re)entering’ the support system and having a chance to ‘move on’ to longer-term housing. This beneficial effect of some of the policy reactions to the pandemic on people experiencing homelessness was unexpected. On the flip side, however, particularly for people struggling wit…
The economy of hot air – habiter , warmth and security among homeless people at the Gare du Nord in Paris
Many of my rough sleeping informants were competing for surface-space on the hot air vents emanating heat around Paris’ Gare du Nord. During the winter months in particular, warm space was a scarce commodity and the hot air vents were an ideal starting point for shelter-making, or habiter. Introducing you to Ma, Miles and a group of Polish people I will demonstrate how my informants ordered the space around the vents, personalised it with physica…
Home making without a home
Choose, judge, and move on
For the last decade, the UK government has followed an agenda of "personalizing care." Based on ethnographic material from three hostels supporting homeless people with mental health issues in central London, I analyze tensions in the everyday implementation of this policy agenda: on the one hand, using tools such as personal budgets, personalization was practiced by providing people with short-term, concrete choices-between different care worker…
Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)