Main description:

- The authors have direct experience of working in a wide range of statutory and non-statutory mental health, social care, housing and criminal justice agencies.
- Will appeal to a broad range of scholars across the behavioural and social sciences.
- Critically examines the concept of trauma, very much a hot topic, from a broad, societal standpoint.

Contents:

Part 1 Un-Housed Minds: The Diogenes Paradigm 1 Un-Housed Minds and Psycho-Social Traumatisation 2 The Diogenes Paradigm 3 Citizens of the World? 4 Inhospitability, Injury, Insult and Insurrection 5 Agoraphilia and Agoraphobia: Negotiating Fraught Encounters in Open Spaces Part 2 Inhospitable Environments: Traumatised and Traumatising (Dis)Organisations 6 "Who Watches the Watchers"? (Dis)Organised Responses to Psycho-Social Traumatisation 7 The Inhospitable Planetary Environment: 'Climate Migration', Pandemic and Biosphere Destruction Part 3 Reclaiming the Agora: Activist Research and Antioppressive Practice 8 Racial (Re-)Traumatisation and Practices of Equality 9 Practices of Disappointment: Going Along With Stuff Less and Getting Out More