the political logic of the non-profit industrial complex

Rodríguez, Dylan

doi:10.2307/j.ctv11smnz6.6

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“…Increasingly, federal and state governments have financed punishing underserved communities. The growth of the prison industrial complex over the last several years has been documented by researchers, including Rodriguez (2017). James (2000James ( , 2005 lamented that there is a connection between the confinement of minoritized communities and racist policies.…”

Section: Racial Disproportionality In Us Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deficit-Oriented Beliefs, Anti-Black Policies, Punitive Practices, and Labeling: Exploring the Mechanisms of Disproportionality and Its Impact on Black Boys in One Urban “No-Excuses” Charter School

Marsh

Walker

2022

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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Background/Context: Embedded in “common sense” and state-mandated reforms to close “the achievement gap,” the urban school, especially those sites with a no-excuses orientation to learning, can produce and reproduce the carceral state in students’ lives. The seemingly innocuous policies and processes limit access to educational opportunities and create disproportionate out-of-class time, which can emerge as the connective tissue for criminalization and the school-to-prison nexus that disproportionately affects Black males in the United States. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The objective of the study was to illuminate the more unspoken mechanisms of disproportionality in school while concurrently raising awareness of how everyday practices, like school-imposed mis/labeling, contribute to the symbolic violence and dehumanization of Black and Latinx boys in school. Research Design: The article includes purposeful observations and semi-structured interview data with school personnel and students drawn from a 14-month ethnographic study. Findings/Results: The findings from this study revealed that the mechanisms of disproportionality ranged from explicit anti-Black policies to more tacit systems and processes, but all reflected how the no-excuses environment contributes to the connective tissue of criminalization and the school-to-prison nexus for boys of Color. The finding centers on three systems and policies that are influenced by carceral logic and the enforcement of student alienation. Conclusion/Recommendations: The findings from the study reveal the need for a radical transformation of no-excuses public charter schools, one that is community-based and rooted in an Afrocentric education. If educators and other school personnel are working in tandem with community members, they can reassess their negative misperceptions of minoritized communities that begin to shape infractions rooted in anti-Blackness. A community-based approach can begin to dismantle the school-to-prison nexus. Furthermore, an Afrocentric education approach requires school personnel to understand the history and culture of people of African descent and to see students’ full humanity. Here, students’ lived experiences would be centered within the diaspora, while sociocultural norms that may have been criminalized in the past would be valued and accepted.

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Section: Racial Disproportionality In Us Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deficit-Oriented Beliefs, Anti-Black Policies, Punitive Practices, and Labeling: Exploring the Mechanisms of Disproportionality and Its Impact on Black Boys in One Urban “No-Excuses” Charter School

Marsh

Walker

2022

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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“…The idea of a service system also allows us to conceptualize what the sector might become if organizations adopted the unified goal of ending homelessness. Dej (2020) draws on the concepts of the prison industrial complex (Christie, 2000) and non-profit industrial complex (Rodríguez, 2007) to explore how the development of the homeless serving sector has similarly resulted in managing homelessness, rather than preventing or ending it. The funding structures, systems, and programs that make up the homelessness industrial complex create an overarching governance model that reinforces short-term responses, territorialism, competitiveness, and silos across homeless-serving organizations and adjacent sectors (e.g., health, criminal justice, housing).…”

Section: The Homelessness Industrial Complex and Street-level Bureauc...mentioning

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A Turning Point? Responses to COVID-19 Within the Homelessness Industrial Complex

Roebuck

Chapados²,

Dej³

et al. 2022

IJOH

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the homeless serving sector in significant ways, including impacts on service users and service providers. In this qualitative case study from Ottawa, Canada, we conducted 28 semi-structured interviews with service providers and key informants from the homeless serving sector to learn more about responses to the pandemic. We argue that, as it is currently designed, the homeless serving sector had limited opportunity to respond to the combined crises in housing, overdose, and COVID-19 with a transformative agenda. The article draws on Dej’s (2020) concept of the homelessness industrial complex, which argues that current systems manage and sustain rather than end homelessness. And we use Lipsky’s (1969; 1980) notion of street-level bureaucracy to explore the role of service providers as they translated shifting public health guidelines into action on the ground within contexts of ambiguity and constraint. Service providers were tasked with keeping people safe from COVID-19 while managing broader social issues such as homelessness, food insecurity, mental health challenges, and an increasingly poisoned illicit drug supply. They described challenges such as narrowly directed funding and short-term and temporary solutions to homelessness. Staff faced significant occupational stress and burnout within demoralizing contexts (Kerman & Kidd, 2021; Kerman et al., 2022). Despite new partnerships and innovative approaches that emerged, responses to the pandemic in Ottawa were shaped by the homelessness industrial complex and did not significantly contribute to ending homelessness. Even so, public health measures were able to disrupt business as usual in the sector, sparking the question: what might be possible if homelessness comes to be understood as a public health crisis?

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“…When it comes to the non-profit sector in the US, critical scholars such as Rodriguez (2007) reference it as the 'non-profit industrial complex'. This industrial complex is defined as a 'set of symbiotic relationships that link together political and financial technologies of state and owning-class proctorship and surveillance over public political intercourse, including and especially emergent progressive and leftist social movements, since about the mid-1970s' (Rodriguez, 2007: 21-2).…”

Section: Colonialism the Health Care System And Non-profitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Civic leadership, emotions and social change: decolonial ethnographic research on an American Indian non-profit organisation

Jimenez‐Luque

Burgess

2022

Voluntary Sector Review

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The non-profit sector in the United States (US) plays a key role in reproducing racism and classism. These two systems of oppression within non-profits mirror colonialism since their agendas and decisions about their implementation are made by elites rather than by people directly affected by the issues at hand. Through a case study of a Native American non-profit organisation in the north-west of the US, this article explores how emotions, particularly the processes through which people regulate emotions, can be used as resources for social change. Drawing on decolonial theory and combining critical non-profit and leadership studies, the research included observations, the gathering of artefacts and 13 interviews/conversations with individuals and groups. This article offers leadership strategies and actions for decolonising structures of the non-profit sector using emotions as assets for meaning-making, communication and resistance. Two central findings emerge: (a) emotions can change the dominant script; and (b) emotions can be used to resist, raise voices and contribute to social change. These findings bring new perspectives and nuances to better understand public leadership within postcolonial societies and are especially relevant for non-profit organisations led by marginalised social groups that have initiated collective struggles of social change to decolonise American society.

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the political logic of the non-profit industrial complex

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Deficit-Oriented Beliefs, Anti-Black Policies, Punitive Practices, and Labeling: Exploring the Mechanisms of Disproportionality and Its Impact on Black Boys in One Urban “No-Excuses” Charter School

Deficit-Oriented Beliefs, Anti-Black Policies, Punitive Practices, and Labeling: Exploring the Mechanisms of Disproportionality and Its Impact on Black Boys in One Urban “No-Excuses” Charter School

A Turning Point? Responses to COVID-19 Within the Homelessness Industrial Complex

Civic leadership, emotions and social change: decolonial ethnographic research on an American Indian non-profit organisation

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