Rileggere The Hobo 100 anni dopo. Dalla Homelessness di frontiera alla Homelessness di confino

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Articolo

Rivista

STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA

Sezione

Online First | Open Access

Titolo

Rileggere The Hobo 100 anni dopo. Dalla Homelessness di frontiera alla Homelessness di confino

Rereading The Hobo 100 Years Later. From Frontier Homelessness to Border Homelessness

Autore

Giulia Mascagni

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

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05-2023

Doi

10.26350/000309_000166

Issn

0039-291X (stampa) | 1827-7896 (digitale)

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Descrizione

People who are homeless represent – today as a hundred years ago – one of the most extreme forms of poverty. Too often, the lack of recognition of the social problem adds up to the personal drama of a condition of grave poverty. Following Nels Anderson’s unsurpassed text The Hobo as a conceptual map, a reflection on some selected theoretical and analytical points related to homelessness is proposed. Retraced the genesis of Anderson’s research, from a perspective of comparison and dialogue with the classic, we will focus on the defining aspects of the phenomenon; the themes of work/non-work and marginalization in the urban context will be investigated; finally, the most
current reconfiguration of the processes of material and relational impoverishment and the dynamics of exclusion in the contemporary socioeconomic background will be analyzed.