Discursive constructions of homelessness in a small city in the Canadian prairies: Notes on destructuration, individualization, and the production of (raced and gendered) unmarked categories

American Ethnologist

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-107

  Kingfisher, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

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EID: 33847000576     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2007.34.1.91     Document Type: Article

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