Life Underground

Auteur
Terry Williams is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. His previous Columbia University Press books are The Con Men: Hustling in New York City (2015); Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm (2017); Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club (2020); and The Soft City: Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City (2022).

Texte du rabat

Beneath the surface of Manhattan's Riverside Park run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people took shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel residents' world, seeking to understand life on the margins and out of sight.

Contenu
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Descent
2. Genesis
3. Underground Ecology
4. Men Underground: Bernard, Kal, and Jason
5. Working Life
6. Food: Restaurants and Soup Kitchens
7. Women Underground: Tin Can Tina
8. Beatrice and Bobo
9. The Tagalong
10. The Rabbit Hole
11. Reflections on Life Under the Street
    Endnote
    Epilogue: Mediating the Underground: Bernard's Exit
    Appendix A: Income and Housing in New York City, 20022014
    Appendix B: Behavior Mapping and Cartography
    Appendix C: Interview Questions for Bernard, Princeton University, 2012
    Appendix D: Bernard's Dream and Postcard
    Appendix E: Legacies of Harm: Policy and Policing
    Appendix F: Where Are They Now?
    Notes
    Index