Community, Use it or Lose it?
Keywords:
Community, homeless, homeless community, identification loss, joint-commitment, photo identificationAbstract
This article continues the debate on using the term
community in anthropological analysis. The article argues for
the usefulness of the term community through a consideration
of how some homeless people in Canada are perceived by the
"housed community," and how some homeless people perceive
their own situation in relation to that of the housed community.
The article also argues for consideration of people's aspiration to
join or exit a community as an important concept in understand
ing notions of community. It also demonstrates that notions of
community can impact social policy.
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