The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order

by Bruce O'Neill

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In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom. Focusing on Bucharest, Romania, where the 2008 financial crisis compounded the failures of the postsocialist state to deliver on the promises of liberalism, O'Neill shows how the city's homeless are unable to fully participate in a society that is increasingly organized...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822363283

ISBN13:9780822363286

Release Date:April 2017

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Psychology Social Science Social Sciences

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