Underground inscriptions

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This essay examines the politics of home in underground Bucharest, and the ways relationships of care among homeless drug users emerge amid everyday violence and exclusion, illuminating the unconventional practices of belonging that take shape in transient communal spaces such as underground electric, transportation, and waste-management systems. The traces of systemic exclusion in these experiences converge in makeshift forms of kinship and care, provoking questions of solidarity, fragility, and the political potential of recognizing such forms through ethnographic collaboration.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Lancione, M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9018-3562
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2020 American Anthropological Association. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	homelessness; kinship; substance use
Dates:	Published (online): 14 February 2020 Published: 14 February 2020
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2020 10:43
Last Modified:	29 Jun 2020 10:43
Status:	Published
Publisher:	American Anthropological Association
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.14506/ca35.1.05
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:162542

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