Webbläsaren som du använder stöds inte av denna webbplats. Alla versioner av Internet Explorer stöds inte längre, av oss eller Microsoft (läs mer här: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. nyaste versioner av Edge, Chrome, Firefox eller Safari osv.

Tova Höjdestrand

Tova Höjdestrand

Docent | Universitetslektor

Tova Höjdestrand

Good Relations, Micro-Entrepreneurship, And Permissive Spaces: “Transitional” Homelessness In St. Petersburg

Författare

  • Tova Höjdestrand

Summary, in English

This study examines how survival strategies of homeless people in St. Petersburg, Russia, have been affected by “roll back” and “roll out” patterns of neoliberalism. The chaotic transition to market economy after 1990 caused widespread poverty, but it also provided opportunities that allowed the most marginalized people to carve out niches to exist. Outdoor markets, railway stations, and other places of petty commerce provided options to make money, while spaces for privacy and rest were offered in the dilapidated and neglected apartment blocs. After the year 2000, however, a thorough urban revitalization of the city has seriously reconfigured these spaces, thus jeopardizing the survival of the homeless.

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialantropologi

Publiceringsår

2011

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

957-971

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Urban Geography

Volym

32

Issue

7

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Bellwether Publishing Ltd

Ämne

  • Social Anthropology

Nyckelord

  • social anthropology
  • homelessness
  • urban studies
  • socialantropologi

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0272-3638