‘These people should not rest’: mobilities and frictions of the homeless geographies in Athens city centre

Panos Bourlessas

Mobilities, 2018, vol. 13, issue 5, 746-760

Abstract: The paper relates homelessness to the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ by highlighting mobility’s constitutive character in homeless geographies, and the politics involved in the making of mobile homeless subjectivities in central Athens. Ethnographic material demonstrates that, within the city’s institutional and material context, a specific sense of mobility prevails, which may reflect broader mentalities of managing the poor in times of austerity. The case of a night shelter exemplifies how this institutional sense materialises, whereas crucial frictions are involved in the city’s homeless geographies. Yet it is the homeless subjects that embody, experience and make these mobilities and frictions meaningful and political.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1464544

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