Manufactured Insecurity

Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29564-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 159 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after mobile home park closures and community-wide evictions in Florida and Texas—the two states with the largest mobile home populations—Manufactured Insecurity forces social scientists and policymakers to respond to a fundamental question: how do the poor access and retain secure housing in the face of widespread poverty, deepening inequality, and scarce legal protection? With important contributions to urban sociology, housing studies, planning, and public policy, the book provides a broader understanding of inequality and social welfare in the United States today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sullivan, Esther

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Prologue
Introduction: Halfway Homeowners
1. The MobileHome in America and Americana2. Socio-Spatial Stigma and Trailer Trash
3. Daily Life Under the Specter of Dislocation
4. “We Are Not For Sure Wherever We Are”
5. Relocation and the Paradox of State Interventions
6. Communities as Currency Within the Mobile Home Empire
Conclusion

Methodological Appendix
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Esther Sullivan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Denver.