Informal City Speaker Series - America’s Playground: Informal Sociability among Atlantic City’s Street Homeless

Informal City Speaker Series - America’s Playground: Informal Sociability among Atlantic City’s Street Homeless
Informal City Speaker Series - America’s Playground: Informal Sociability among Atlantic City’s Street Homeless
March 1, 2012 - 12:30pm
Urban Planning, The Lewis Center
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
The Lewis Center co-sponsored by IRLE
lewisctr@spa.ucla.edu
The Public
Luskin School of Public Affairs -Room 5391, Faculty Lounge
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Submitted by FCraciun Posted on November 15, 2011
Date: 
March 1, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Presented By: 
The Lewis Center co-sponsored by IRLE

Location

Luskin School of Public Affairs -Room 5391, Faculty Lounge
United States
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Open to: 
The Public
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lewisctr@spa.ucla.edu

Jacob Avery's primary research interests include urban poverty and inequality, social service provision, culture, social interaction, and fieldwork methods. Through an immersed ethnographic account of street life in Atlantic City, NJ, Avery examines how a network of chronically homeless and chemically addicted individuals experience their precarious condition on a daily basis, and how and why they subsist without regular aid from formal systems of support.

Jacob Avery's primary research interests include urban poverty and inequality, social service provision, culture, social interaction, and fieldwork methods. Through an immersed ethnographic account of street life in Atlantic City, NJ, Avery examines how a network of chronically homeless and chemically addicted individuals experience their precarious condition on a daily basis, and how and why they subsist without regular aid from formal systems of support. He is currently developing this research into a book-length manuscript, and exploring the organizational and interpersonal dynamics of service provision for the newly homeless.