Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization The NIMBY Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century

Name: Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization The NIMBY Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780198233626

ISBN-10: 0198233620

ISBN-13: 9780198233626

Edition: 1998

Authors: Lois M. Takahashi

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Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization: The NIMBY Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century argues that it is the rise in community opposition across race, class, and region that should be considered in terms of the changing social construction of stigma, i.e. the ways in which people define those who are acceptable and those who are not. Three particular themes underlie the arguments made throughout this book: (a) the importance of economic, welfare state, and demographic restructuring in community response to homelessness and HIV/AIDS; (b) the significance of the social and spatial construction of stigma for ongoing and future community response; and (c) the role…

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List price: $235.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/14/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English




Community And Need



Understanding the Rise in Homelessness and HIV/Aids



Explaining Community Opposition



Stigmatization And Difference



Stigmatization, Homelessness, and HIV/Aids



Assignation of Stigma to Persons and Places



`Race', Gender, and the NIMBY Syndrome



Homelessness, Hiv/Aids, And Community Response



Rejecting Persons and Places: Locational Conflicts Over Homelessness



HIV/Aids, Homelessness, and Communities of Colour



Homelessness, Hiv/Aids, And Public Policy



Relocating Homeless Persons: The Anti-Camping Ordinance in Santa Ana, California



Intergovernmental Strategies to Reduce Stigma: HIV/Aids Education and Prevention



Conclusions



Problematizing Fairness



Facing the NIMBY Syndrome


Bibliography


Index