Really good.
When I worked in a homeless hostel in Oxford back in the late '90s, after a while I realized that there was a correlation between the student sector and the homeless sector through the price of heroin.
Apparently, Oxford was popular with the homeless not just because of the presence of the nightshelter, the only clinic (at that time) for the homeless in the UK and the presence of both rehab units and a number of psychiatric units (now almost all closed by the government), but because student population density leads to lower heroin prices... so Oxford University helped to lower drug prices as well as the city being a popular stop-off on the north-south homeless circuit.
I was always intrigued by the idea of seeing if that correlation could be mapped on a national basis, and also if the homeless circuit could be properly mapped, or if it changed over time, rapidly or slowly. These look like the kind of people who could do that.
Dr Jon Cloke
LCEDN/MEGS Research Associate
Geography Department
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
Office: 01509 228193
Mob: 07984 813681
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Murakami Wood [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 25 June 2012 14:24
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Subject: Dis-orientations
A nice interview here with a genuine critical geographer...
http://libcom.org/blog/mapping-shared-imaginaries-anti-capitalist-movements-interview-tim-stallmann-counter-cartog
David.
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