Josephine Ensign, Skid Road
On The Frontier of Health and Homelessness in An American City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21798219 |
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| Authors | Marine Dassé (0009-0000-7734-3560, Université de Perpignan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transatlantica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1765-2766 • E-ISSN: 1765-2766 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/transatlantica.18204 |
| OpenAlex | W4283761395 |
| Language | EN |
Josephine Ensign recounts the history of the unfortunate souls of Seattle but also of their reputation: the poor seen as being lazy and vicious and how their treatment-or lack thereof-often through physical, sexual and emotional abuse relates to the boom and bust cycles of the city, its decision-making processes and most importantly: its system-level failures
Criminology · Dysfunctional family · Frontier · Mental health · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Sociology · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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