Author: Peter Fraenkel
Publisher:
ISBN: 6000008546
Category:
Page:
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Homeless persons
Of No Fixed Abode
Author: John Stewart
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719005604
Category: Homeless persons
Page: 200
View: 715
Philosophy
No Fixed Abode
This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being.
Author: Marc Augé
Publisher:
ISBN: 0857420968
Category: Philosophy
Page: 80
View: 331
In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so under compensated that they cannot afford a place to sleep. Contrary to popular opinion, according to the website for the Coalition for the Homeless, forty-four percent of the homeless in first world countries actually have jobs. In No Fixed Abode, Marc Augé's pathbreaking ethnofiction--a fictional ethnography--a man named Henri narrates his strange existence in the margins of Paris. By day he walks the streets, lingers in conversation with the local shopkeepers, and sits writing in cafés, but at night he takes shelter in an abandoned house. From here, we see a progressive erosion of Henri's identity, a loss of bearings, and a slow degeneration of his ability to relate to others. But then he meets the artist Dominique, whose willingness to share her life with him raises questions about who he has become and about what a person needs in order to be a part of society. This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé's book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.Social Science
No Fixed Abode
This is a timely and important book encompassing wider themes of inequality and austerity measures; through the prism of homelessness, it offers a true picture of Britain today – and shows how terrifyingly close to breaking point we ...
Author: Maeve McClenaghan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529023732
Category: Social Science
Page:
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‘A sensitive exposé that illustrates the complexities of modern homelessness. Moving, poetic and as rousing as Orwell’ – Cash Carraway, author of Skint Estate ‘Urgent, gripping and devastating’ – The Secret Barrister This book will finally give a face and a voice to those we so easily forget in our society. It will tell the highly personal, human and sometimes surprisingly uplifting stories of real people struggling in a crumbling system. By telling their stories, we will come to know these people; to know their hopes and fears, their complexities and their contradictions. We will learn a little more about human relationships, in all their messiness. And we’ll learn how, with just a little too much misfortune, any of us could find ourselves homeless, even become one of the hundreds of people dying on Britain’s streets. As the number of rough sleepers skyrockets across the UK, No Fixed Abode by Maeve McClenaghan will also bring to light many of the ad-hoc projects attempting to address the problem. You will meet some of the courageous people who dedicate their lives to saving the forgotten of our society and see that the smallest act of kindness or affection can save a life. This is a timely and important book encompassing wider themes of inequality and austerity measures; through the prism of homelessness, it offers a true picture of Britain today – and shows how terrifyingly close to breaking point we really are.Biography & Autobiography
No Fixed Abode
Author: Charlie Carroll
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers LTD
ISBN: 9780857659293
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 288
View: 388
Traveling on foot across the UK, with no money or reason to rush, Charlie finds the hidden side of the population—the homeless, the addicted, the disabled—who few outsiders ever get to knowIn the summer of 2011, Charlie found the school he taught at could not afford to renew his teaching contract. With no job and no money, but suddenly all the time in the world, he decided to travel from Cornwall to London in a peculiarly old-fashioned, quintessentially English, and remarkably cheap way—as a tramp, on foot, sleeping rough. The journey was filled with color, surprise, and danger, and a range of memorable encounters—from Stan, who once saved a boy from being raped but whose homelessness stemmed from a paralysing addiction, to Ian, the one-handed Rastafarian who lived in a tent. With a striking mix of travel and current affairs writing, No Fixed Abode sheds light on a side of the UK few ever see from within.History
No Fixed Abode
In Britain today around half-a-million homeless people form a regrettable permanent 'underclass'. This book spells out their similarities with the spurned vagrant of bygone days.
Author: R. Humphreys
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780230510869
Category: History
Page: 222
View: 580
Homelessness is now a much greater problem than twenty years ago. In Britain today around half-a-million homeless people form a regrettable permanent 'underclass'. This book spells out their similarities with the spurned vagrant of bygone days. It traces how for centuries emergent laws have combated alleged threats from unruly vagrants while largely ignoring causal factors like economic fluctuation, bad harvests, disease and war. It is argued that only educational and social reform will alleviate the homeless plight.No Fixed Abode
Of No Fixed Abode
Author: Manchester Council for Voluntary Service
Publisher:
ISBN: OCLC:1159837959
Category:
Page: 12
View: 768
Biography & Autobiography
No Fixed Abode A Jewish Odyssey to Africa
The book is written in a very lively manner and there are countless anecdotes, many of them in direct speech... I recommend it strongly.” — Leslie Baruch Brent, Association of Jewish Refugees “The book bursts with life.
Author: Peter Fraenkel
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN:
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page:
View: 843
In this memoir, Fraenkel writes as a member of an enclosed minority: German Jew within a predominantly Lithuanian Jewish community which was part of a white settler community, itself a minority in a predominantly black African territory. A young settler reprimanded him for stepping out of the way of an African family on a narrow bush path: “Walk straight on. They must know who is the master in the land.” Fraenkel found himself whistling the Nazis’ anthem “Clear the streets for the brown battalions. The storm troopers are marching.” He was coming to learn the importance of not conforming. “A vivid account of a childhood in a middleclass, non-observant Jewish family in Nazi Germany, forced to emigrate to Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) in 1939.” — Trevor Gundry, Jewish Chronicle “Peter Fraenkel... and his family emigrated in 1939 from Breslau to Northern Rhodesia, where he forged a successful career... in the Central African Broadcasting Service. Fraenkel was thus given the opportunity of using his undoubted skills as a broadcaster to help in the education of black people, using new methods of mass education... his sojourn in Northern Rhodesia came to an end in 1957, a few years after the country was refashioned by the British government as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland — a big mistake, Fraenkel thinks, and one that wasn’t undone until much later when the independent state of Zambia was created. His love affair with Africa came to an end, and he felt impelled to leave, because of his ‘dislike of racist politics in this bastion of white privilege’... Peter Fraenkel’s account of the 20 years in Northern Rhodesia is absorbing... there are riveting chapters on his activities as a somewhat subversive broadcaster, working together with like-minded whites and Blacks... The book is written in a very lively manner and there are countless anecdotes, many of them in direct speech... I recommend it strongly.” — Leslie Baruch Brent, Association of Jewish Refugees “The book bursts with life. Countries like these Central African territories are... far more exciting than countries with a settled structure. Here a new society is emerging. This excitement is lost in official reports and academic studies and one of Fraenkel’s achievements is that he conveys it in full measure. I know of no book which more vividly describes the variety and throb of a modern African township.” — Max Gluckman, The Observer “He brings out the formation of the new African metropolitan and rural societies... I know of no book which describes this surging varied vitality so well.” — AfricaNo Fixed Abode
Ian Mcpherson is known by many names; Luigi, Angus and a few we probably can't publish.
Author: Ian McPherson
Publisher:
ISBN: 152131814X
Category:
Page: 162
View: 274
Ian Mcpherson is known by many names; Luigi, Angus and a few we probably can't publish. His life has been extraordinary, starting with very humble beginnings as a son of an immigrant in Scotland to the heady high life of London in the 1960's which saw him hobnobbing with the rich and famous.His mémoirs are a joy to read. His life was richer than fiction and he now resides in his native Edinburgh, wandering the streets in his brightly coloured chords, his scruffy, worn waxed jacket and his well worn shoes. Angus, as I know him, is a kind, generous man - a true gentleman.No Fixed Abode
Fiction
No Fixed Abode
No Fixed Abode is a tale of love, betrayal, divided loyalties and raving, set against the turbulent backdrop of pre-millenial environmental protest.
Author: Josh Hannan
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc
ISBN: 9781312854468
Category: Fiction
Page:
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1992: When Grey Stringham's house burns down, along with all his worldly possessions, he joins a motley crew of New Age Travellers and embarks upon an extraordinary adventure through British 1990's counter-culture. No Fixed Abode is a tale of love, betrayal, divided loyalties and raving, set against the turbulent backdrop of pre-millenial environmental protest.Biography & Autobiography
Of No Fixed Abode Uncle Albert from Percy Main
This is a biographical account that traces the bare bones of the life of my oldest paternal uncle from Percy Main on North Tyneside.
Author: Michael a. Hutchinson
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 1092471367
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 150
View: 118
This is a biographical account that traces the bare bones of the life of my oldest paternal uncle from Percy Main on North Tyneside. The book is a sequel to 'Charlie, Son of Percy Main' and takes the reader on a journey from an impoverished childhood in an impoverished but tight-knit community adjoining the neighbouring ship-building and coal-exporting port of North Shields. Albert loses both his parents by the time he reaches 26 and becomes a 'loner' who soon lands up homeless and in trouble. He moves south and struggles to survive, relying on his wit and guile to find shelter and food. A spell 'inside' finally helps him to 'reform', but at the expense of disuniting other family-members.Anglican Communion
Ethelstan Cheese
Author: Philip Cousins
Publisher:
ISBN: 1850930333
Category: Anglican Communion
Page: 119
View: 147
Social service
No Fixed Abode
The people and stories , sad and funny , with which No Fixed Abode is packed
are realised with extraordinary vividness . We appear with the countless petty
offenders in Bow Street court ; we join the rough sleepers on the bombsites of the
...
Author: Anton Wallich-Clifford
Publisher:
ISBN: NWU:35556003826286
Category: Social service
Page: 191
View: 872
Biography
No Fixed Abode
I warned him that he was not allowed to have what is known as “ No fixed abode "
as he was young enough to be sent to a training centre . The Vicar offered to take
him in the car and away they went . I haven't yet heard what transpired .
Author: Bronwen Rees
Publisher:
ISBN: MINN:319510023167109
Category: Biography
Page: 159
View: 239
The Indian Succession Act X of 1865 with Arrangement of Sections
When the application is made to the Judge of a District in When application is
which the deceased had no fixed abode at the made to the Judge of a time of his
death , it shall be in the discretion of District in which the the Judge to refuse the ...
Author: India
Publisher:
ISBN: BL:A0017508961
Category:
Page: 88
View: 116
Reports from Commissioners
47 No. VIII . of 1859 , entitled " An Act for simplifying the Procedure of the Courts
of « Civil Judicature not established by Royal ... When the application is made to
the judge of a zillah in which the deceased had no fixed abode at the time of his ...
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN: OXFORD:555100582
Category:
Page:
View: 577
Great Britain
Report of Her Majesty s Commissioners Appointed to Prepare a Body of Substantive Law for India c
No. VIII . of 1859 , entitled “ An Act for simplifying the Procedure of the Courts of “
Civil Judicature not established by Royal ... When the application is made to the
judge of a zillah in which the deceased had no fixed abode at the time of his ...
Author: Great Britain. Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Prepare a Body of Substantive Law for India
Publisher:
ISBN: MINN:31951D01356019H
Category: Great Britain
Page:
View: 436
Great Britain
First Report of Her Majesty s Commissioners Appointed to Prepare a Body of Substantive Law for India c
No. VIII . of 1859 , entitled “ An Act for simplifying the Procedure of the Courts of «
Civil Judicature not established by Royal ... When the application is made to the
judge of a zillah in which the deceased had no fixed abode at the time of his ...
Author: Great Britain. Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Prepare a Body of Substantive Law for India
Publisher:
ISBN: BL:A0021955870
Category: Great Britain
Page: 117
View: 748
