Landscapes of Despair

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 278-300

  Deverteuil, Geoffrey ^a   Evans, Josh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continued legacy of dismantlement, exclusion and containment; Dear and Wolch's pessimistic predictions for fate of service dependent populations; Erratic residential patterns and subsistence pattern disruption; Landscapes of care and wellbeing; Landscapes of despair dependent population discharge from institutions; Landscapes of Despair synthesizing health and urban geography; Landscapes of intolerance revenge; Race and shelter geography of Los Angeles; Service dependent populations, public facility location, NIMBY and stigmatized places; Transpacific and transatlantic convergence of service dependent ghetto formation and poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255196957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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