Street People and the Contested Realms of Public SpaceAmster studies the social and spatial implications of homelessness in America. Increasingly, commentators have lamented the erosion of public space, charting its decline along with the rise of commercialization and privatization. A result is the criminalization of homelessness, a phenomenon revealed here through participant observations, informal conversations, and in-depth interviews with street people, city officials, and social service providers. Amster explores the interconnections among: (i) the impetus of development and gentrification; (ii) the enactment of anti-homeless ordinances and regulations; (iii) the material and ideological erosion of public space; (iv) emerging forces of resistance to these trends; and (v) the continuing viability of anti-systemic movements. |
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... dominant strategy is to defect ( i.e. , exploit the other ) ; and ( 3 ) the logic of " collective action , " in which it has often been asserted that " whenever one person cannot be excluded from the benefits that others provide , each ...
... dominant strategy is to defect ( i.e. , exploit the other ) ; and ( 3 ) the logic of " collective action , " in which it has often been asserted that " whenever one person cannot be excluded from the benefits that others provide , each ...
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... dominant perception of the homeless as presented by the media , merchants , law enforcement , city officials , and sometimes even social workers and sociologists , is one of abjection , pathology , and victimization -- in other words ...
... dominant perception of the homeless as presented by the media , merchants , law enforcement , city officials , and sometimes even social workers and sociologists , is one of abjection , pathology , and victimization -- in other words ...
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... dominant culture . Of course , as studies of deviance have continually borne out ( e.g. , Lauderdale 2003 ) , a society's response to " deviant " elements is rarely linked in a direct way to any actual or credible threat . Rather , the ...
... dominant culture . Of course , as studies of deviance have continually borne out ( e.g. , Lauderdale 2003 ) , a society's response to " deviant " elements is rarely linked in a direct way to any actual or credible threat . Rather , the ...
Contents
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SPACE | 21 |
Disneyfication | 51 |
Skid Row | 73 |
Copyright | |
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activists aggressive panhandling anarchism anarchist communities anti-homeless appearance Arizona Republic arrested ASU State Press behavior benches broken windows Centerpoint challenge citizens city council city of Tempe civility commercial court crime Criminalization of Homelessness critical culture Disneyfication dominant Don Mitchell DTC's East Valley Tribune editorial enforcement existence Ferrell Fixing Broken Windows forces Foscarinis gentrification global homeless homeless communities human individuals issue justice Kawash likewise lives Lofland merchants Mill Avenue Mill Rats Mitchell nature NLCHP notes observes owners park person Police Department political private property problem processes protest public sidewalk public space Rainbow Family Randall Amster realm redevelopment resistance Rod Keeling sense shelter sidewalk law sidewalk ordinance sidewalk sitting similarly sit-in slackers sleeping society spatial strategies TEAM Tempe Butte Tempe City Jail Tempe Police Tempe's homeless theory transient urban camping utopian vagabond Waldron
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Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the ... Randall Amster No preview available - 2009 |