Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg’s latest ethnography gives an excellent portrayal of the construction and contestation of economic networks among the homeless in urban San Francisco.
This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States.
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The result is a dispassionate chronicle of survival, loss, caring, and hope rooted in the addicts’ determination to hang on for one more day and one more “fix” through a “moral economy of sharing” that precariously balances mutual solidarity and interpersonal betrayal.”
