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Informationen zum Autor Lois M. Takahashi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine Klappentext In AIDS, Homelessness, and Stigmatization, Lois Takahashi takes a close look at the social forces behind local-level community opposition to human service facilities associated with homelessness and AIDS. Using both quantitative and qualitative data and methods, She argues that this community opposition is a product of the changing social construction of stigma, or the ways in which we define who is acceptable and who is not. The book demonstrates that the social and spatial construction of stigma can be a useful theoretical concept for understanding ongoing and future community response. Throughout, the author stresses the importance of economic, welfare state, and demographic restructuring in community response to homelessness and HIV/AIDS, and examines the role of institutions, such as municipal governments and the courts, in defining and adjudicating local facility siting disputes. Zusammenfassung 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 of institutions such as municipal governments and the courts in defining and adjudicating local facility siting disputes. To explore these themes the author uses both quantitative and qualitative data and methods. Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies aims to publish the best original research studies in the related fields of geography and environmental studies. Its scope is international, presenting a broad and diverse range of scholarly approaches from across the world. Series Editors: Gordon Clark, Andrew Goudie, and Ceri Peach Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I. COMMUNITY AND NEED 1: Understanding the Rise in Homelessness and HIV/Aids 2: Explaining Community Opposition PART II. STIGMATIZATION AND DIFFERENCE 3: Stigmatization, Homelessness, and HIV/Aids 4: Assignation of Stigma to Persons and Places 5: `Race', Gender, and the NIMBY Syndrome PART III. HOMELESSNESS, HIV/AIDS, AND COMMUNITY RESPONSE 6: Rejecting Persons and Places: Locational Conflicts Over Homelessness 7: HIV/Aids, Homelessness, and Communities of Colour PART IV. HOMELESSNESS, HIV/AIDS, AND PUBLIC POLICY 8: Relocating Homeless Persons: The Anti-Camping Ordinance in Santa Ana, California 9: Intergovernmental Strategies to Reduce Stigma: HIV/Aids Education and Prevention PART V. CONCLUSIONS 10: Problematizing Fairness 11: Facing the NIMBY Syndrome Bibliography Index ...
