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Assemblages of care and the analysis of public policies on homelessness in Turin, Italy

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This paper investigates the ways urban policies on homelessness are discursively framed and practically enacted in Turin, Italy. The notion of 'assemblages of care' is introduced to show how these policies contribute to the constitution of different experiences of homelessness, by means of their discursive blueprints and practical enactments. Relying on 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork, the paper questions four policies. Three of these interventions are found to have negative impacts on homeless people's emotions and ways of life; the remaining policy, I argue, holds the potential to produce alternative assemblages and more positive engagement with the individuals encountered. The conclusion provides more general critical reflections on urban policy and homelessness.

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  • Michele Lancione, 2014. "Assemblages of care and the analysis of public policies on homelessness in Turin, Italy," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(1), pages 25-40, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:25-40
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.868163
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    1. Veronica Polin, 2017. "Homelessness: un problema solo redistributivo? Una riflessione sulla rilevanza della dimensione sociale e umana per la comprensione del fenomeno," Working Papers 02/2017, University of Verona, Department of Economics.
    2. Veronica Polin, 2017. "Identit? e riconoscimento: un possibile approccio teorico per la comprensione del fenomeno dell?homelessness?," ECONOMIA PUBBLICA, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2017(3), pages 91-117.
    3. Michele Lancione & Colin McFarlane, 2016. "Life at the urban margins: Sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 48(12), pages 2402-2421, December.
    4. Monika Sidor & Dina Abdelhafez, 2021. "NGO–Public Administration Relationships in Tackling the Homelessness Problem in the Czech Republic and Poland," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, March.

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