EVERYDAY LIFE ROUND THE SCRAP YARDS IN WARSAW (Codziennosc wokól skupów zlomu w Warszawie)

• Authors: Mostowska Magdalena
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This paper explores the survival strategies, daily-paths and everyday activities of a group of homeless men in Warsaw who live by scavenging. It is based on data collected during three months (April-June 2008) of participant observation focussed on a street corner in the vicinity of two recycling centres/scrap yards, where a group of waste-picking men after selling the scavenged goods meet and hang out on a daily basis. The place performs multiple functions and is a central point both in their daily-paths, their time-organizing framework and their functions in a group.

Keywords

EN

GROUPS; HOMELESSNESS; TIME-SPACE PATHS; WASTE SCAVENGING

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 77-96
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mostowska Magdalena

• Magdalena Mostowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych, Instytut Studiów Regionalnych i Globalnych, ul. Karowa 20, 00-324 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA068625