CiNii 図書 - Out of place : homeless mobilizations, subcities, and contested landscapes

Winner of the 1998 Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Section on Marxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association Homeless persons find themselves excluded, repressed, and displaced in all sectors of everyday life--from punitive police and city zoning practices to media stereotypes. Wandering through the streets of developing cities, these poorest of the poor have no place to go. More and more, these city developments are not simply accepted passively; rather, resistance by organized homeless groups--civil protests, squatting, and legal advocacy--spread as conditions of everyday life deteriorate for the very poor. Out of Place: Homeless Mobilizations, Subcities, and Contested Landscapes details the development of two organized homeless resistances in two different cities. From the redevelopment protesters and squatting activities of the Student-Homeless Alliance in San Jose to the squatter camps of Tranquility City in Chicago, the differences and similarities between both groups are highlighted within the context of city redevelopment policies. Wright argues for considering homelessness not merely as an issue for social welfare, but first and foremost as a land use issue directly connected to issues of gentrification, displacement, and the cultural imaginings of what the city should look like by those who have the power to shape its development. How the homeless combat the restructurings of everyday life, how they attempt to establish a "place" is understood within the context of tactical resistances. Questions of collective identity and collective action are raised as a result of the successful organizing efforts of homeless groups who refuse to be victims. The struggle between individual and collective forms of empowerment is highlighted, with the conclusions pointing to the necessity to rethink and go beyond the traditional solutions of more housing and job training.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Out of Place Talking Homeless, Walking Poor Constructing the Homeless, Deconstructing the "Poor" Academic Segmentation of Homeless Bodies Boundary Work and "Speaking for Others" 1. Social-Physical Space, Socal Imaginaries, and Homeless Identities Social Imaginary Significations and Everyday Life The Production of Space and the Location of Identity in Everyday Life The "Fixing" of Partial Truths, Difference, Identities, and Bodies in Space Gendered and Racialized Bodies: the "Other" and Social-Physical Space Degeneracy, Moral Worth, and the "Scaling of Bodies" Social-Physical Space, Social Imaginaries, and the City 2. Urban Redevelopment Visions, Social Imaginaries, Polarized Topographies Economic Restructuring, Downsizing, and Homelessness City Redevelopment Strategies: Inclusion or Exclusion? Culture and Images of Redevelopment Polarized Topographies, Spatial Hierarchies Producing/Consuming Pleasure Spaces Producing/Consuming Refuse Spaces Producing/Consuming Functional Spaces Zoned and Redeveloped Exclusions and Dispersions 3. Making Pleasure and Refuse: Chicago and San Jose Chicago Changing Chicago Visions Polarized Topographies I: The Near South Side/South Loop Polarized Topographies II: The Near West Side San Jose Problematic Economics Polarized Topographies: Housing, Race, Redevelopment Changing San Jose Visions New Pleasure Spaces: The Guadalupe River Park Project and the Downtown Plan Exclusive Redevelopment: Dispersing the Poor 4. Authoritative Strategies, Borders, and Homeless Containment Institutional, Cultural, and Market Exclusions Homeless Social and Cultural Assimilations Street and Store: Exclusions and Repressions Political and Media Displacements Shelters and Surveillance: Exclusion, Assimilation, and Containment 5. Homeless Mobilizations and Spatial Resistances The University and Homeless Mobilization: The Student-Homeless Alliance Community Groups and Homeless Mobilization: Tranquility City 6. Homeless Placemaking, Collective Identity, and Collective Action Resistant Heterotopias: Site and Community The Bridge The Catacombs Tranquility City SHA and Hut Dweller Differences from Other Homeless Populations Collective and Individual Gains 7. Conclusions Challenging the Disappearance of Jobs, Housing, and Health Care Challenging City Redevelopment Strategies Service-Learning: A Pedagogy to End Homelessness? Individual versus Collective Empowerment Appendix: San Jose's Housing Shortage Notes References Index

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