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

by Lois M. Takahashi

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198233626
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/14/1999
Series:	Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1620L (what's this?)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

PART I. COMMUNITY AND NEED1. Understanding the Rise in Homelessness and HIV/Aids2. Explaining Community OppositionPART II. STIGMATIZATION AND DIFFERENCE3. Stigmatization, Homelessness, and HIV/Aids4. Assignation of Stigma to Persons and Places5. ‘Race', Gender, and the NIMBY SyndromePART III. HOMELESSNESS, HIV/AIDS, AND COMMUNITY RESPONSE6. Rejecting Persons and Places: Locational Conflicts Over Homelessness7. HIV/Aids, Homelessness, and Communities of ColourPART IV. HOMELESSNESS, HIV/AIDS, AND PUBLIC POLICY8. Relocating Homeless Persons: The Anti-Camping Ordinance in Santa Ana, California9. Intergovernmental Strategies to Reduce Stigma: HIV/Aids Education and PreventionPART V. CONCLUSIONS10. Problematizing Fairness11. Facing the NIMBY SyndromeBibliographyIndex