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Homeless Shelter (homeless + shelter)
Selected AbstractsMedicalizing Homelessness: The Production of Self-Blame and Self-Governing within Homeless SheltersMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2000Vincent Lyon-Callo This article draws upon three years of ethnographic research within an emergency homeless shelter in Massachusetts to explore the subject-making effects of routine shelter helping practices. A medicalized discourse of deviancy is uncovered that provides the dominant conceptual framework within which both concerned homeless people and shelter staff remain enmeshed. As a result, helping practices focus on detecting, diagnosing, and treating understood deviancy within the bodies or selves of homeless people. The dominant discursive practices produce homeless subjects who learn to look within their selves for the "cause " of their homelessness. Treatment focuses on reforming and governing the self. Alternative discourses suggesting the need for practices challenging broader political economic processes are thus marginalized as peripheral and unreasonable, [homelessness, subjectivities, ethnography, political economy, homeless shelters] [source] HOMELESS SHELTER USE AND REINCARCERATION FOLLOWING PRISON RELEASE,CRIMINOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY, Issue 2 2004STEPHEN METRAUX Research Summary: This paper examines the incidence of and interrelationships between shelter use and reincarceration among a cohort of 48,424 persons who were released from New York State prisons to New York City in 1995,1998. Results show that, within two years of release, 11.4% of the study group entered a New York City homeless shelter and 32.8% of this group was again imprisoned. Using survival analysis methods, time since prison release and history of residential instability were the most salient risk factors related to shelter use, and shelter use increased the risk of subsequent reincarceration. Policy Implications: These findings show both homelessness and reincarceration to be substantial problems among a population of released prisoners, problems that fall into the more general framework of community reintegration. They also suggest that enhanced housing and related services, when targeted to a relatively small at-risk group among this population, have the potential to substantially reduce the overall risk for homelessness in the group. [source] Accelerated Fabrication: A Catalytic Agent within a Community of CaringJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 4 2005HECTOR LASALA Accelerated Fabrication is an ongoing project in the Building Institute, a design-build program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, in which team members designed a master plan for a homeless shelter, then immediately fast-tracked the deployment of several modest but instrumental fabrications on site. As a deliberate tactic, acceleration generated project momentum and stimulated an improvisational design process. [source] Medicalizing Homelessness: The Production of Self-Blame and Self-Governing within Homeless SheltersMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2000Vincent Lyon-Callo This article draws upon three years of ethnographic research within an emergency homeless shelter in Massachusetts to explore the subject-making effects of routine shelter helping practices. A medicalized discourse of deviancy is uncovered that provides the dominant conceptual framework within which both concerned homeless people and shelter staff remain enmeshed. As a result, helping practices focus on detecting, diagnosing, and treating understood deviancy within the bodies or selves of homeless people. The dominant discursive practices produce homeless subjects who learn to look within their selves for the "cause " of their homelessness. Treatment focuses on reforming and governing the self. Alternative discourses suggesting the need for practices challenging broader political economic processes are thus marginalized as peripheral and unreasonable, [homelessness, subjectivities, ethnography, political economy, homeless shelters] [source] Making Sense of NIMBY poverty, power and community opposition to homeless sheltersCITY & SOCIETY, Issue 2 2001Vincent Lyon-Callo Local citizens mobilizing in opposition to the presence of homeless people and services is increasingly common in communities across the United States. Such "'not in my backyard" politics have often been understood as resulting from prejudice, bigotry, or misguided understandings. I argue for an analysis of these social movements through considering how particular strategies and practices come to seem "natural" to social actors while other possibilities are effaced. Analyzing these "common sense" reactions thus must entail examining the interplay between discursively made representations of homeless people and historical, class, and power dynamics that impact on people within particular communities. [Ethnography, homelessness, inequality, NIMBY, Massachusetts] [source] | ||||||||||