Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance: Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry

Gonzalez, Miguel

doi:10.1525/maq.2005.19.3.360

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“…It has been well established by the literature on homelessness that homeless services can be paternalistic and individualize structural problems (Gowan 2010;Lyon-Callo 2015;Stuart 2016;Wasserman and Clair 2010). The participants included in this sample, however, were much more likely to talk about systems that produced inequality and to engage in the rhetoric of social and racial justice, what Gowan (2010) calls "system talk."…”

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“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers

Schneider

2022

Qual Sociol

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Americans are increasingly aware of structural racial disadvantages, and especially aware of Black disadvantage. In turn, this paper asks to what degree do whites interested in undermining systems of oppression and privilege understand their own place within those systems (if at all)? Based on participant observation of four grassroots organizations serving the unhoused and 30 semi-structured interviews with volunteers, I show that even explicitly color-conscious white volunteers, many of whom spoke about structural inequality and systemic racism without prompting, struggled to see how their race was important in their day-to-day service interactions. A general inability to speak about interracial interactions despite many interracial service experiences highlights the pervasive power and privilege embedded in the taken-for-granted nature of whiteness and provides empirical support to the idea that racialized social systems discourage racial self-awareness among whites. These findings have implications for social justice-and/or service-oriented whites who seek to undermine the systems they identify as problematic and emphasize that antiracism is a continuous process.

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Section: Louis Missourimentioning

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“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers

Schneider

2022

Qual Sociol

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“…This abandonment takes the form of a "fragmentation of services" and a "revolving door" characterized by "cycles of hospitalization, discharge, 'stability,' refusal [of medication], 'decompensation,' and rehospitalization" (Brodwin 2013, p. 9; see also Myers 2015). Clients move between community mental health, case workers, inpatient care, police and criminal justice systems, jails, single-resident occupancy hotels, the streets, and other social service organizations, constituting a patchwork of services that is motivated by the care for psychosis but which is unequipped to do more than maintain precarious lives (Desjarlais 1997, Floersch 2002, Hopper 1988, Lyon-Callo 2013, Marlovits 2020, Parsons 2018, Santiago-Irizarry 2001. Anthropologists have argued that this "human-made scarcity of mental health services [is] generated by [the] conjoined complicity of state government and corporatized managed health care systems, [and] is more a problem of structural violence than of the solution to the problems of mental illness and emotional affliction" ( Jenkins & Csordas 2020, p. 33).…”

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Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood

Marlovits

Wolf-Meyer

2023

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Dominant anthropological theories of mind, cognition, and consciousness reify particular ways of being in the world as “normal,” which marginalizes the experiences of people who do not meet normative expectations of personhood or exhibit nonnormative subjectivities. By focusing on atypical forms of communication and self-representation in the ethnographic record, which draws from work in the anthropology of disability and psychological anthropology, we argue for the need to attend to interactions and behavior as the necessary basis for anthropological studies of personhood and subjectivity. These foci, which build on a foundation provided by affect theory and disability studies, stand to open up anthropological conceptions of personhood and subjectivity and resituate the process of attribution in making persons and subjects. We articulate a psychotic anthropology that centers atypical forms of consciousness and seeks to unsettle anthropological assumptions about mind, cognition, and consciousness. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 52 is October 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance: Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry

Cited by 2 publications

References 6 publications

“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers

“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers

Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood

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