Susan Fraiman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780231166348
- eISBN:
- 9780231543750
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231166348.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is ...
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Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines elaborated in the context of Victorian poverty, twentieth-century immigration, and new millennial homelessness. Far from being exclusively middle-class, domestic concerns are shown to be all the more urgent and ongoing when shelter is precarious. Fraiman's reformulation frees domesticity from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Fraiman's readings include novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Feinberg, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka; Edith Wharton's classic decorating guide; popular women's magazines; and ethnographic studies of homeless subcultures. Recognizing the labor and know-how needed to produce the space we call "home," Extreme Domesticityvindicates domestic practices and appreciates their centrality to everyday life. At the same time, it remains well aware of domesticity's dark side. Neither a romance of artisanal housewifery nor an apology for conservative notions of home, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings.Less
Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines elaborated in the context of Victorian poverty, twentieth-century immigration, and new millennial homelessness. Far from being exclusively middle-class, domestic concerns are shown to be all the more urgent and ongoing when shelter is precarious. Fraiman's reformulation frees domesticity from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Fraiman's readings include novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Feinberg, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka; Edith Wharton's classic decorating guide; popular women's magazines; and ethnographic studies of homeless subcultures. Recognizing the labor and know-how needed to produce the space we call "home," Extreme Domesticityvindicates domestic practices and appreciates their centrality to everyday life. At the same time, it remains well aware of domesticity's dark side. Neither a romance of artisanal housewifery nor an apology for conservative notions of home, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings.
David Clapham
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447306344
- eISBN:
- 9781447311591
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447306344.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
The book explores the objectives, philosophies and outcomes of supported housing for vulnerable people. The exploration is intended to further our understanding of an often-neglected topic in housing ...
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The book explores the objectives, philosophies and outcomes of supported housing for vulnerable people. The exploration is intended to further our understanding of an often-neglected topic in housing research and to stimulate further research in this area. But, the book is also intended to share what is known about supported housing in a way that helps the planning and running of supported housing in the future and so improves the well-being of vulnerable people. The focus of the book is on the impact that supported housing makes on the well-being of those who live in it and whether some forms of supported housing are better at doing this than others. An evaluation framework based on the concept of well-being and the affordances of home and neighbourhood is used to evaluate different supported housing models for older people, homeless people and people with disabilities in Britain and Sweden. The evaluation finds that the forms of supported housing that most increase the well-being of residents are those that enable residents to live in individual self-contained dwellings with full occupancy rights, whilst enabling them to receive appropriate support in these homes. The closer the model of supported housing is to an institution and the more that support is designed to control the behaviour of residents, the less is well-being achieved. The book concludes with recommendations for future policy and practice to support well-being.Less
The book explores the objectives, philosophies and outcomes of supported housing for vulnerable people. The exploration is intended to further our understanding of an often-neglected topic in housing research and to stimulate further research in this area. But, the book is also intended to share what is known about supported housing in a way that helps the planning and running of supported housing in the future and so improves the well-being of vulnerable people. The focus of the book is on the impact that supported housing makes on the well-being of those who live in it and whether some forms of supported housing are better at doing this than others. An evaluation framework based on the concept of well-being and the affordances of home and neighbourhood is used to evaluate different supported housing models for older people, homeless people and people with disabilities in Britain and Sweden. The evaluation finds that the forms of supported housing that most increase the well-being of residents are those that enable residents to live in individual self-contained dwellings with full occupancy rights, whilst enabling them to receive appropriate support in these homes. The closer the model of supported housing is to an institution and the more that support is designed to control the behaviour of residents, the less is well-being achieved. The book concludes with recommendations for future policy and practice to support well-being.
Alison J. Murray Levine
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786940414
- eISBN:
- 9781789629408
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786940414.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter presents three films that deal with homelessness and migration: Qu’ils reposent en révolte (Sylvain George, 2011) about migrants in Calais; Au bord du monde/On the Edge of the World ...
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This chapter presents three films that deal with homelessness and migration: Qu’ils reposent en révolte (Sylvain George, 2011) about migrants in Calais; Au bord du monde/On the Edge of the World (Claus Drexel, 2014) on homeless people in central Paris; and La Permanence/On Call (Alice Diop, 2016), which depicts a free medical clinic in Bobigny. In all of these films, the protagonists live at the metaphorical edge of society, and some walk other edges as well, between life and death, between physical and mental illness and health. These three directors explore what happens at these edges, far outside the realm of direct experience for most documentary film viewers. They follow characters to physical and geographical edges—national borders, riverbanks, beaches, and roadsides—and invite viewers to tiptoe up to those edges and feel the danger they pose. The films create film spaces, if ephemeral ones, where these rootless individuals do belong, where they can emerge as individuals, and where there is a potential for experiential and ecological connection with the viewer.Less
This chapter presents three films that deal with homelessness and migration: Qu’ils reposent en révolte (Sylvain George, 2011) about migrants in Calais; Au bord du monde/On the Edge of the World (Claus Drexel, 2014) on homeless people in central Paris; and La Permanence/On Call (Alice Diop, 2016), which depicts a free medical clinic in Bobigny. In all of these films, the protagonists live at the metaphorical edge of society, and some walk other edges as well, between life and death, between physical and mental illness and health. These three directors explore what happens at these edges, far outside the realm of direct experience for most documentary film viewers. They follow characters to physical and geographical edges—national borders, riverbanks, beaches, and roadsides—and invite viewers to tiptoe up to those edges and feel the danger they pose. The films create film spaces, if ephemeral ones, where these rootless individuals do belong, where they can emerge as individuals, and where there is a potential for experiential and ecological connection with the viewer.
Carol L. M. Caton
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190463380
- eISBN:
- 9780190463410
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190463380.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations, Health and Mental Health
The Open Door: Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness in the Era of Community Treatment, explains how and why homelessness in this group has persisted over the past 35 years despite policy and ...
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The Open Door: Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness in the Era of Community Treatment, explains how and why homelessness in this group has persisted over the past 35 years despite policy and program initiatives to end it. This ten-chapter book chronicles the unintended rise of homelessness in the wake of far-reaching reforms in post–World War II mental health care that resulted in the opening of the doors of the mental asylum and the evolution of a new system of community care that failed to address the multiple service and support needs of people with mental disability. The book documents the key role of advocacy in spurring a governmental response to homelessness and the creative efforts by mental health professionals and service providers to address the gaps in services and supports engendered in the transition from institutional to community care. A highlight of the book is its comprehensive, carefully documented “state of the science” on homelessness, review of critical issues in managing severe mental illness in the community setting, and presentation of the effectiveness of service and housing interventions that have brought stability to the lives of many. The higher cost of enriched programs and the scarcity of low-cost housing options have constrained their widespread dissemination, challenging the political will to bring an end to the tragedy of homelessness in America. Finally, the book reviews the role of homelessness prevention, a recovery orientation, and the promise of early treatment of psychotic disorders to facilitate greater social inclusion and community participation.Less
The Open Door: Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness in the Era of Community Treatment, explains how and why homelessness in this group has persisted over the past 35 years despite policy and program initiatives to end it. This ten-chapter book chronicles the unintended rise of homelessness in the wake of far-reaching reforms in post–World War II mental health care that resulted in the opening of the doors of the mental asylum and the evolution of a new system of community care that failed to address the multiple service and support needs of people with mental disability. The book documents the key role of advocacy in spurring a governmental response to homelessness and the creative efforts by mental health professionals and service providers to address the gaps in services and supports engendered in the transition from institutional to community care. A highlight of the book is its comprehensive, carefully documented “state of the science” on homelessness, review of critical issues in managing severe mental illness in the community setting, and presentation of the effectiveness of service and housing interventions that have brought stability to the lives of many. The higher cost of enriched programs and the scarcity of low-cost housing options have constrained their widespread dissemination, challenging the political will to bring an end to the tragedy of homelessness in America. Finally, the book reviews the role of homelessness prevention, a recovery orientation, and the promise of early treatment of psychotic disorders to facilitate greater social inclusion and community participation.
Peter K. Mackie
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847428462
- eISBN:
- 9781447307259
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847428462.003.0014
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Over the past decade youth homelessness has received increasing political priority in the UK and across much of the developed world. Focussing on Wales, where a comprehensive review of homelessness ...
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Over the past decade youth homelessness has received increasing political priority in the UK and across much of the developed world. Focussing on Wales, where a comprehensive review of homelessness policy is currently being undertaken, this chapter explores the impacts of homelessness legislation in Wales on the social and physical spaces occupied by homeless young people. Informed by an understanding of key geographical concepts of place, networks and mobility – as well as sociological understandings of power and agency – it considers the experiences of all homeless young people, not only those who occupy the streets. The critique draws upon the author's own experiences of undertaking interviews with homeless young people during several research studies over the past four years. While the chapter centres on Wales the discussion has implications for youth homelessness policies elsewhere.Less
Over the past decade youth homelessness has received increasing political priority in the UK and across much of the developed world. Focussing on Wales, where a comprehensive review of homelessness policy is currently being undertaken, this chapter explores the impacts of homelessness legislation in Wales on the social and physical spaces occupied by homeless young people. Informed by an understanding of key geographical concepts of place, networks and mobility – as well as sociological understandings of power and agency – it considers the experiences of all homeless young people, not only those who occupy the streets. The critique draws upon the author's own experiences of undertaking interviews with homeless young people during several research studies over the past four years. While the chapter centres on Wales the discussion has implications for youth homelessness policies elsewhere.
Ramprasad Sengupta
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780198081654
- eISBN:
- 9780199082407
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198081654.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
The chapter discusses the population dynamics and future prospect of India’s population growth till around the middle of the present century. In this context it has analysed the regional pattern of ...
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The chapter discusses the population dynamics and future prospect of India’s population growth till around the middle of the present century. In this context it has analysed the regional pattern of demographic transition as driven by the dynamics of fertility preference in the different regions of India and has examined how poverty and gender-power relationship have influenced the fertility behavior. The discussion refers to the new poverty line and the poverty ratios as per Tendulkar Committee Report as well and its implcations. Besides, the chapter also describes the micro environmental living condition of households in India with special references to housing space, homelessness, drinking water, sanitation and urbanization. The chapter has further extended the discussion in the urban context to the problems of slums and slum improvement policy in India. It concludes by discussing the historical dynamics of population policy and programme of India including its current state.Less
The chapter discusses the population dynamics and future prospect of India’s population growth till around the middle of the present century. In this context it has analysed the regional pattern of demographic transition as driven by the dynamics of fertility preference in the different regions of India and has examined how poverty and gender-power relationship have influenced the fertility behavior. The discussion refers to the new poverty line and the poverty ratios as per Tendulkar Committee Report as well and its implcations. Besides, the chapter also describes the micro environmental living condition of households in India with special references to housing space, homelessness, drinking water, sanitation and urbanization. The chapter has further extended the discussion in the urban context to the problems of slums and slum improvement policy in India. It concludes by discussing the historical dynamics of population policy and programme of India including its current state.
Hector Rodriguez
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9789888208166
- eISBN:
- 9789888313488
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208166.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines Evans Chan’s cerebral and personal film The Map of Sex and Love with reference to the concepts raised by Georg Lukacs in his seminal The Theory of the Novel. It is a film marked ...
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This chapter examines Evans Chan’s cerebral and personal film The Map of Sex and Love with reference to the concepts raised by Georg Lukacs in his seminal The Theory of the Novel. It is a film marked by homelessness: the impending changes in Hong Kong’s physical landscape give viewers a sense of precariousness of life. The film’s manifold intertextual references embrace philosophy, Cantonese and Western operas, classical Chinese cinema, and English language poetry. As with the other works of Evans Chan, there is a strong conviction that narrative form should treat the absurd as a necessary condition of meaning.Less
This chapter examines Evans Chan’s cerebral and personal film The Map of Sex and Love with reference to the concepts raised by Georg Lukacs in his seminal The Theory of the Novel. It is a film marked by homelessness: the impending changes in Hong Kong’s physical landscape give viewers a sense of precariousness of life. The film’s manifold intertextual references embrace philosophy, Cantonese and Western operas, classical Chinese cinema, and English language poetry. As with the other works of Evans Chan, there is a strong conviction that narrative form should treat the absurd as a necessary condition of meaning.
Brian Portley
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719095931
- eISBN:
- 9781781708514
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719095931.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter 3 places emphasis on the early housing pathways of migrants. This chapter explores how migrants’ right to housing impact on their living conditions. This provides the context for a discussion ...
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Chapter 3 places emphasis on the early housing pathways of migrants. This chapter explores how migrants’ right to housing impact on their living conditions. This provides the context for a discussion of the reasons migrants’ had for leaving home and the difficulties they encountered during their initial engagement with Ireland’s housing market. This analysis of the relationship between structure, agency and power is also applied to a discussion of migrants’ initial engagement with housing providers when attempting to find accommodation in Ireland. Next, this chapter examines discourses that act as barriers to finding accommodation, including the impact of stigma on migrant identity. Finally, discourses of homelessness and their capacity to determine policy responses to the increasing and diversified incidence of migrant homelessness are discussed. This analysis centres on the interaction of migrants with homeless service providers and how both groups reacted to the discourses surrounding legislation that proscribes recently arrived migrants from receiving any meaningful form of social protection.Less
Chapter 3 places emphasis on the early housing pathways of migrants. This chapter explores how migrants’ right to housing impact on their living conditions. This provides the context for a discussion of the reasons migrants’ had for leaving home and the difficulties they encountered during their initial engagement with Ireland’s housing market. This analysis of the relationship between structure, agency and power is also applied to a discussion of migrants’ initial engagement with housing providers when attempting to find accommodation in Ireland. Next, this chapter examines discourses that act as barriers to finding accommodation, including the impact of stigma on migrant identity. Finally, discourses of homelessness and their capacity to determine policy responses to the increasing and diversified incidence of migrant homelessness are discussed. This analysis centres on the interaction of migrants with homeless service providers and how both groups reacted to the discourses surrounding legislation that proscribes recently arrived migrants from receiving any meaningful form of social protection.
Susan Fraiman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780231166348
- eISBN:
- 9780231543750
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231166348.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Calls on non-fictional works across several genres—journalistic accounts, a memoir, ethnographies, and Marc Singer’s film Dark Days (2000)—to explore domesticity in the context of homelessness. ...
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Calls on non-fictional works across several genres—journalistic accounts, a memoir, ethnographies, and Marc Singer’s film Dark Days (2000)—to explore domesticity in the context of homelessness. Argues that domesticity is not absent for this population so much as it is broken, embattled, and reinvented. Looks at homeless individuals and communities who struggle to improvise such domestic elements as safety, privacy, storage, routine, intimacy, and kinship.Less
Calls on non-fictional works across several genres—journalistic accounts, a memoir, ethnographies, and Marc Singer’s film Dark Days (2000)—to explore domesticity in the context of homelessness. Argues that domesticity is not absent for this population so much as it is broken, embattled, and reinvented. Looks at homeless individuals and communities who struggle to improvise such domestic elements as safety, privacy, storage, routine, intimacy, and kinship.
David Clapham
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447306344
- eISBN:
- 9781447311591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447306344.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
The chapter begins with an analysis of the discourses of homelessness that forms the background to a description of the policies towards homeless people in Sweden and Britain. This is followed by an ...
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The chapter begins with an analysis of the discourses of homelessness that forms the background to a description of the policies towards homeless people in Sweden and Britain. This is followed by an analysis of the impact of different models of supported housing used in the two countries using the framework described earlier in the book. Finally some conclusions are drawn on the impact of supported housing on the well-being of the homeless residents.Less
The chapter begins with an analysis of the discourses of homelessness that forms the background to a description of the policies towards homeless people in Sweden and Britain. This is followed by an analysis of the impact of different models of supported housing used in the two countries using the framework described earlier in the book. Finally some conclusions are drawn on the impact of supported housing on the well-being of the homeless residents.
Giulia Mazza
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520291089
- eISBN:
- 9780520964945
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520291089.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
In India, relatively few of those who are mentally ill live without their families. Yet some do, either because they are abandoned or because they flee. The Banyan is a non-governmental organization ...
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In India, relatively few of those who are mentally ill live without their families. Yet some do, either because they are abandoned or because they flee. The Banyan is a non-governmental organization founded in 1993 to rescue poor, abandoned, homeless women with mental health issues. Since its inception, the Banyan has treated over two thousand persons with mental illness. They bring in women who are often too incapacitated to remember their own names, and they care for them and treat them and teach them to work. They provide food, clothing, shelter, medication, general healthcare, therapeutic activities, and occupational training–all for free. They have been able to return over a thousand of them to their natal homes. Its remarkable success arises in part from the way these families understand the problems created by illness: first and foremost as failure to work, not as an inner experience with symptoms of distressing voices. This chapter illustrates this process through the life of a woman with schizophrenia abandoned by her family.Less
In India, relatively few of those who are mentally ill live without their families. Yet some do, either because they are abandoned or because they flee. The Banyan is a non-governmental organization founded in 1993 to rescue poor, abandoned, homeless women with mental health issues. Since its inception, the Banyan has treated over two thousand persons with mental illness. They bring in women who are often too incapacitated to remember their own names, and they care for them and treat them and teach them to work. They provide food, clothing, shelter, medication, general healthcare, therapeutic activities, and occupational training–all for free. They have been able to return over a thousand of them to their natal homes. Its remarkable success arises in part from the way these families understand the problems created by illness: first and foremost as failure to work, not as an inner experience with symptoms of distressing voices. This chapter illustrates this process through the life of a woman with schizophrenia abandoned by her family.
Maarten Davelaar and Wendy Kerstens
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781847428349
- eISBN:
- 9781447307785
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847428349.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sociology of Religion
Chapter nine reveals the ways in which FBOs provide relief services for homeless people. It looks at the importance of third sector involvement, especially from FBOs, and uses evidence from the FACIT ...
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Chapter nine reveals the ways in which FBOs provide relief services for homeless people. It looks at the importance of third sector involvement, especially from FBOs, and uses evidence from the FACIT project to show how FBOs provide help across countries. The chapter discusses the services FBOs can provide, and their strategies. Finally, FBOs are cost-effective and it is argued, they provide trusted services that contribute to the developing charitable city.Less
Chapter nine reveals the ways in which FBOs provide relief services for homeless people. It looks at the importance of third sector involvement, especially from FBOs, and uses evidence from the FACIT project to show how FBOs provide help across countries. The chapter discusses the services FBOs can provide, and their strategies. Finally, FBOs are cost-effective and it is argued, they provide trusted services that contribute to the developing charitable city.
Michaela Schrage-Früh
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719089282
- eISBN:
- 9781781707579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719089282.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter focuses on transculturality and recent Irish poetry. In its exploration of the hitherto under-researched poetry of Dermot Bolger and the recent work produced by other poets such as Mary ...
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This chapter focuses on transculturality and recent Irish poetry. In its exploration of the hitherto under-researched poetry of Dermot Bolger and the recent work produced by other poets such as Mary O'Malley, David Wheatley, and Pat Boran, this chapter analyses the ways in which the immigrant experience is interpreted through the lenses of Ireland's shared transcultural experiences of exile, homelessness, and homesickness. This contribution also focuses on lesser known literary voices such as Betty Keogh, Eileen Casey, Siobhan Daffy, and Adenice Adedoyin, whose poems explore, in various ways, Julia Kristeva's realisation that we are ultimately all ‘strangers to ourselves.’Less
This chapter focuses on transculturality and recent Irish poetry. In its exploration of the hitherto under-researched poetry of Dermot Bolger and the recent work produced by other poets such as Mary O'Malley, David Wheatley, and Pat Boran, this chapter analyses the ways in which the immigrant experience is interpreted through the lenses of Ireland's shared transcultural experiences of exile, homelessness, and homesickness. This contribution also focuses on lesser known literary voices such as Betty Keogh, Eileen Casey, Siobhan Daffy, and Adenice Adedoyin, whose poems explore, in various ways, Julia Kristeva's realisation that we are ultimately all ‘strangers to ourselves.’
Emma Simone
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474421676
- eISBN:
- 9781474434638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421676.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
In Chapter 3, the previous focus upon place is narrowed to that of ‘home’, an element of Being-in-the-world that is granted particular significance throughout Woolf’s writings. Heideggerian ...
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In Chapter 3, the previous focus upon place is narrowed to that of ‘home’, an element of Being-in-the-world that is granted particular significance throughout Woolf’s writings. Heideggerian understandings of ‘not-Being-at-home’, ‘thrownness’, and ‘theyness’ are drawn upon in order to explore Woolf’s representations of women in the private space as ‘homeless at home.’ From her autobiographical accounts, to her essays and her fiction, Woolf emphasises the ways in which the physical spaces of the home – including its objects, and architectural features such as doors and rooms – are representative of the social order. Reflecting a recurrent preoccupation throughout her writings, Woolf also explores the sense of homelessness and deep unease experienced by social ‘outsiders’ such as Septimus Smith in Mrs Dalloway, and Louis and Rhoda in The Waves, each of whom unveil, question and reject society’s call for conformity and compliance.Less
In Chapter 3, the previous focus upon place is narrowed to that of ‘home’, an element of Being-in-the-world that is granted particular significance throughout Woolf’s writings. Heideggerian understandings of ‘not-Being-at-home’, ‘thrownness’, and ‘theyness’ are drawn upon in order to explore Woolf’s representations of women in the private space as ‘homeless at home.’ From her autobiographical accounts, to her essays and her fiction, Woolf emphasises the ways in which the physical spaces of the home – including its objects, and architectural features such as doors and rooms – are representative of the social order. Reflecting a recurrent preoccupation throughout her writings, Woolf also explores the sense of homelessness and deep unease experienced by social ‘outsiders’ such as Septimus Smith in Mrs Dalloway, and Louis and Rhoda in The Waves, each of whom unveil, question and reject society’s call for conformity and compliance.
T. M. Luhrmann
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520291089
- eISBN:
- 9780520964945
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520291089.003.0011
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
To many people in society who struggle with schizophrenia, the mental health system in the United States delivers care that is disgraceful. This is not, it should be said, the care that the health ...
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To many people in society who struggle with schizophrenia, the mental health system in the United States delivers care that is disgraceful. This is not, it should be said, the care that the health system in some sense ‘intends’ to deliver. Yet care-as-usual has become an “institutional circuit” of prison, shelter, hospital, and transitional housing which is notable mostly for the degree to which people opt out of services. This chapter describes the institutional circuit and the culture that develops on the street, in which to assert that one is “crazy” is seen as asserting weakness and vulnerability in a difficult world—and so many people chose to reject care associated with psychiatric illness.Less
To many people in society who struggle with schizophrenia, the mental health system in the United States delivers care that is disgraceful. This is not, it should be said, the care that the health system in some sense ‘intends’ to deliver. Yet care-as-usual has become an “institutional circuit” of prison, shelter, hospital, and transitional housing which is notable mostly for the degree to which people opt out of services. This chapter describes the institutional circuit and the culture that develops on the street, in which to assert that one is “crazy” is seen as asserting weakness and vulnerability in a difficult world—and so many people chose to reject care associated with psychiatric illness.
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226143781
- eISBN:
- 9780226143804
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226143804.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes the rediscovery of homelessness in 1980s America. The rediscovery of homelessness did not simply reflect the stunning growth of poverty and the declining fortunes of the ...
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This chapter describes the rediscovery of homelessness in 1980s America. The rediscovery of homelessness did not simply reflect the stunning growth of poverty and the declining fortunes of the American working class since the heyday of the family-wage pact. The discourse of homelessness was itself part of a larger struggle to represent the new economic and social realities of the era, to cast such abstract problems as faltering economic growth, labor market restructuring, and increased class stratification as the dramatic loss of home. With their ability to arouse pity and inspire protectionist intervention, homeless women, especially those with dependent children, soon replaced Maharidge and Williamson's Forgotten Men as the most recognizable emblems of homeless victimization. In addition to long-term economic and labor market changes, experts also identified the contraction of the government safety net as playing a central role in homelessness.Less
This chapter describes the rediscovery of homelessness in 1980s America. The rediscovery of homelessness did not simply reflect the stunning growth of poverty and the declining fortunes of the American working class since the heyday of the family-wage pact. The discourse of homelessness was itself part of a larger struggle to represent the new economic and social realities of the era, to cast such abstract problems as faltering economic growth, labor market restructuring, and increased class stratification as the dramatic loss of home. With their ability to arouse pity and inspire protectionist intervention, homeless women, especially those with dependent children, soon replaced Maharidge and Williamson's Forgotten Men as the most recognizable emblems of homeless victimization. In addition to long-term economic and labor market changes, experts also identified the contraction of the government safety net as playing a central role in homelessness.
Carol L. M. Caton
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190463380
- eISBN:
- 9780190463410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190463380.003.0008
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations, Health and Mental Health
This chapter presents two large-scale governmental efforts to implement community-level projects to improve the availability of and access to housing and support services for homeless people with ...
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This chapter presents two large-scale governmental efforts to implement community-level projects to improve the availability of and access to housing and support services for homeless people with severe mental illness; the federally supported Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Supports (ACCESS Project) and the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness’s (USICH) Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. The chapter presents the outcome of the ACCESS Project, and the development, implementation, and outcome of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. Case studies of Ten-Year Plans in five American cities—Portland, San Francisco, Houston, Salt Lake City, and Washington, D.C.—are presented. Characteristics of successful strategies are discussed.Less
This chapter presents two large-scale governmental efforts to implement community-level projects to improve the availability of and access to housing and support services for homeless people with severe mental illness; the federally supported Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Supports (ACCESS Project) and the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness’s (USICH) Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. The chapter presents the outcome of the ACCESS Project, and the development, implementation, and outcome of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. Case studies of Ten-Year Plans in five American cities—Portland, San Francisco, Houston, Salt Lake City, and Washington, D.C.—are presented. Characteristics of successful strategies are discussed.
Carol L. M. Caton
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190463380
- eISBN:
- 9780190463410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190463380.003.0009
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations, Health and Mental Health
The lack of prevention and early intervention services can result in a constant influx of newly homeless people with severe mental illness whose homelessness may eventually become long-term and ...
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The lack of prevention and early intervention services can result in a constant influx of newly homeless people with severe mental illness whose homelessness may eventually become long-term and chronic. Ending homelessness requires opening the “back door” of the homeless services system to housing opportunities for people already homeless, but also closing the “front door” with effective interventions to prevent people from experiencing a first homeless episode. This chapter presents population-level prevention efforts, such as the Federal Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) and the Homelessness Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act (HEARTH), and high-risk prevention efforts such as New York City’s Homebase Program and the Massachusetts Tenancy Preservation Program (TPP). A future strategy for homelessness prevention is discussed.Less
The lack of prevention and early intervention services can result in a constant influx of newly homeless people with severe mental illness whose homelessness may eventually become long-term and chronic. Ending homelessness requires opening the “back door” of the homeless services system to housing opportunities for people already homeless, but also closing the “front door” with effective interventions to prevent people from experiencing a first homeless episode. This chapter presents population-level prevention efforts, such as the Federal Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) and the Homelessness Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act (HEARTH), and high-risk prevention efforts such as New York City’s Homebase Program and the Massachusetts Tenancy Preservation Program (TPP). A future strategy for homelessness prevention is discussed.
