Research Catalog

Title

Inequality, poverty, and neoliberal governance : activist ethnography in the homeless sheltering industry / Vincent Lyon-Callo.

Author

Lyon-Callo, Vincent, 1964-

Publication

Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, N.Y. : Broadview Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

191 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in Northampton, Massachusetts, Lyon-Callo argues that homelessness must be understood within the context of increasing neoliberal policies, practices, and discourses. As advocates, activists, policy makers, and homeless people focused attention on market-based and individualized practices of reform and governance, collective efforts that challenged an economy dependent on low wage jobs, declining housing affordability, and the dismantling of the social safety net were marginalized and ignored. Homelessness continued, despite, and partly due to, the limitations of the neoliberal approach." "Combining the rich detail of an ethnographic study with the systemic examination of political economic studies, this book offers a view of homelessness and inequality that is rarely explored elsewhere."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Broadview ethnographies & case studies / Urban series

Uniform Title

Broadview ethnographies & case studies. Urban series.

Subject

• Equality > United States
• Homelessness > Government policy > United States
• Homelessness > Northampton
• Pauvreté > États-Unis
• Poverty > United States
• Sans-abri > Logement > États-Unis
• Sans-abri > Politique gouvernementale > Etats-Unis
• Sans-abri > États-Unis
• Shelters for the homeless > United States
• United States > Economic policy > 1993-2001
• United States > Economic policy > 2001-2009
• United States > Social policy > 1993-
• Égalité > États-Unis
• États-Unis > Politique sociale > 1993-
• États-Unis > Politique économique > 1993-2001

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : poverty and homelessness -- Ch. 1. The political-economic context -- Ch. 2. Medicalizing homelessness -- Ch. 3. Shelter statistics and the silencing of systemic concerns -- Ch. 4. The non-compliant homeless : Ariel's story -- Ch. 5. Defining the role of the sheltering industry -- Ch. 6. Helping homeless youth -- Ch. 7. Managing homelessness -- Ch. 8. Reflections on an engaged ethnography.

ISBN

• 1551116030
• 9781551116037

LCCN

^^2004484581

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library