Introduction: rediscovering homelessness
and ourselves / Randall Amster
Advocacy and identity
Social justice, ethics, and advocacy in street research : a personal accounting / Talmadge Wright
The advocate researcher / Rob Rosenthal
Homelessness and drag / Kathleen Arnold
Writing the streets : dilemmas of depiction / Trenna Valado
Relationships and ethics
Planning and managing ethical dilemmas in homelessness research / Michael Rowe
A "buddy researcher" prospects, limitations, and ethical considerations in ethnographic research on homeless people in berlin / Jürgen von Mahs
Ethics and studying homelessness : tales from the field / Kurt Borchard
Weapons of the weak, by the weak, and for the weak : negotiating power between and among homeless persons and service providers / Julie Adkins
Research and transformation
Do we really need more research on homelessness? : an autoethnographic exploration of ethics, advocacy, and exasperation / Vin Lyon-Callo
Homelessness as "internal displacement" : scholarship and activism in post-Katrina New Orleans / Randall Amster
Do (no) harm : homelessness and personal transformation / David Cook
On the politics and ethics of "using" "the homeless" in social justice research / Don Mitchell and Lynn Staeheli
Conclusion: synthesizing the personal and professional / Trenna Valado
Bibliography
Index
About the contributors.