TY - SER AU - Hennigan, Brian AU - Speer, Jessie TI - Compassionate revanchism: The blurry geography of homelessness in the USA PY - 2019/// PB - Sage KW - criminalisation KW - spaces of care KW - public space KW - homelessness N2 - In this article we move beyond the binary division between care and punishment in urban studies of homelessness to examine how caring institutions are themselves crucial to the punitive and exclusionary project of capitalist urbanisation. Based on ethnographic and archival analysis of homelessness management in Fresno, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, we show how punitive measures and institutions of care often emerge simultaneously and operate in tandem as part of a broader scheme for urban revitalisation. Further, we show how caring institutions themselves often perform the function of controlling homeless people’s movements in the city, while punitive institutions adopt more caring tactics. Thus, we argue for a focus on how compassion and criminalisation are regularly blurred UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018762012 ER -