'Bodies is what makes it work': Statecraft and urban informality in the Philadelphia recovery house movement

Ethnography

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-39

  Fairbanks II, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

addiction; Philadelphia; poverty management; poverty survival; regulation; urban informality; welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953082182     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138110387034     Document Type: Article

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