K Hopper
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1638 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | K Hopper |
| NOMBRES | K |
| APELLIDO | Hopper |
| FIRMA | HOPPER K |
| AFILIACIONES | Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-7463-7524 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 331 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Social hospice
This essay revisits an episode of insurgent citizenship in the author's late mother's life, one that seemed to have off‐putting elements of near farce. She had mounted a door‐to‐door neighborhood canvass of pennies on behalf of the homeless poor and then kept at it for some time. I try to read the self‐imposed constraints on this mendicancy project—the physical labor involved, the pathetic nature of the request, minimal return on effort, and negl…
Exploring the availability and accessibility of menstrual friendly public toilets (MFPTs) in urban spaces
There is a significant gap in the provision of MFPTs in urban centers. Further research is needed to understand the extent of challenges related to accessibility, structural amenities, and availability of MHH-related resources, and how they can best be addressed. Our study's findings underscore the need for the prioritization of MFPTs in public spaces to ensure all individuals have equitable access to manage their menstrual cycles
When the basic seems like a luxury
The good thief
This commentary revisits Nancy Scheper‐Hughes’ Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics ([1979] 2001) and opens up its contentious history as resented exposé, unflinching portrait of a demoralized and anomic landscape, and ethnographic test‐case of the terms of engagement. I suggest that the controversy may betoken what long‐haul ethnography in the present era might hold in store, not for individual researchers alone but for our discipline as well. Wh…
“Do We Not Bleed?” Sanitation, Menstrual Management, and Homelessness in the Time of Covid
Although access to adequate sanitation is formally recognized as a basic human right, public toilets have long been flagged as absent necessities by groups marginalized by class, gender, race, and ability in the United States. Navigating public spaces without the guarantee of reliable restrooms is more than a passing inconvenience for anyone needing immediate relief. This includes workers outside of traditional offices, people with medical condit…
But beautiful
Previous articleNext article FreeBook SymposiumBut beautiful ... Grohmann, Steph. 2020. The ethics of space: Homelessness and squatting in urban England. Chicago: Hau Books.Kim HopperKim HopperColumbia University Mailman School of Public Health Search for more articles by this author Full TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThings get a bit tric…
Hobo Jungle
Menstruation and homelessness
A growing literature attests to menstrual management difficulties of girls, women and other people who menstruate. Largely ignored are the menstruation-management needs of people experiencing homelessness. We explored these realities in New York City through in-depth interviews with individuals living on the street and in shelters (n = 22), key informant interviews with staff at government agencies, shelters and service provider organizations (n …
Limits to Witnessing
Addicted.pregnant.poor by Kelly Ray Knight, Durham, NC
The Double Stigma of Limited Literacy and Mental Illness
The disadvantaged social position of public mental health service users reflects synergistic relationships among tangible disadvantage and stigma and its consequences. Limited literacy, an important factor in social disadvantage and an additional source of stigma, is virtually absent from the discussion. Employing a mixed-methods, service user–informed design, we explore the meaning and impact of limited literacy in the lives of public mental hea…
Reflections on the anthropology of public psychiatry
Signing on for dirty work
As applied anthropologists used to working at arm's length from public psychiatry, we step out of the daily grind to take stock of the challenges of taking on ethnography entrained-harnessed to the implementation of a new program. These include the loss of critical distance, the struggles to negotiate locally viable forms of authority and relevance, the necessity of sustaining a Janus-faced relation with principal players, the urgency of seeing t…
A Preliminary Examination of the Meaning and Effect of Limited Literacy in the Lives of People With Serious Mental Illness
The relationship between literacy and health has been well documented: research shows that people with limited literacy skills have worse health outcomes for numerous chronic conditions. However, little is known about how literacy relates to mental health, including access to treatment and recovery. A pilot study was conducted with mental health services users with varying literacy skills at two urban, public mental health clinics to more fully u…
Reckoning with Homelessness
Embodying Recovery
Mapping resilience pathways of Indigenous youth in five circumpolar communities
This introduction to the Special Issue Indigenous Youth Resilience in the Arctic reviews relevant resilience theory and research, with particular attention to Arctic Indigenous youth. Current perspectives on resilience, as well as the role of social determinants, and community resilience processes in understanding resilience in Indigenous circumpolar settings are reviewed. The distinctive role for qualitative inquiry in understanding these framew…
Being responsible, respectful, trying to keep the tradition alive
Indigenous circumpolar youth are experiencing challenges of growing up in a context much different from that of their parents and their grandparents due to rapid and imposed social change. Our study is interested in community resilience: the meaning systems, resources, and relationships that structure how youth go about overcoming difficulties. The research reflects an understanding that social and cultural ecologies influence people's available …
Commentary
Central Role of Relatedness in Alaska Native Youth Resilience
This qualitative study of youth resilience takes place in an Alaska Native community, which has undergone rapid, imposed social change over the last three generations. Elders, and successive generations have grown up in strikingly different social, economic and political contexts. Youth narratives of relationships in the context of adolescent growth and development offer insights to better understand culturally‐patterned experience, continuity an…
The murky middle ground - When ethnographers engage public health
Street Homelessness Redux
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco, by Teresa Gowan. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 340pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9780816669677. There is one kind of homelessness, so deeply embedded in the slippages of work, family, and state aid as to have become a routine, unremarkable part of what it means to be poor in America today. This is the low-visi bility, serial displacement that plagues uncertain lives and…
De l’ethnographie à l’engagement
« Le chien aboie, la caravane passe. » Proverbe bédouin Depuis plus de vingt ans maintenant, les ethnographes ont exercé leur métier en arpentant les territoires épineux du sans-abrisme aux États-Unis. En allant à contre-courant d’une tradition culturelle qui dénie et relègue la misère, et qui s’en accommode d’autant plus facilement qu’elle reste silencieuse, nous nous sommes emparés de ce spectacle nouveau – un sans-abrisme dur, visible, floriss…
The Marmot Review – Social revolution by Stealth
L’engagement ethnographique
Observer, participer, comprendre, décrire sont les étapes clés du travail de l'ethnographe. Elles ont donné lieu à de véritables controverses, d'autant plus intenses que s'est accru l'engagement du chercheur dans la cité. Présentant des textes récents, mais déjà classiques, L'engagement ethnographique se lit comme une anthologie de réflexions sur le travail de terrain. Du terrain aux comptes rendus de situations sociales, l'ethnographie est, plus…
L’engagement ethnographique
Observer, participer, comprendre, décrire sont les étapes clés du travail de l'ethnographe. Elles ont donné lieu à de véritables controverses, d'autant plus intenses que s'est accru l'engagement du chercheur dans la cité. Présentant des textes récents, mais déjà classiques, L'engagement ethnographique se lit comme une anthologie de réflexions sur le travail de terrain. Du terrain aux comptes rendus de situations sociales, l'ethnographie est, plus…
Rethinking social recovery in schizophrenia
Reckoning with Homelessness
More Than Passing Strange
The presence of psychiatric disturbance is a much-noted feature of the new urban homelessness in the United States. An impaired capacity model of homelessness-which assumes that the disorder is responsible for the displacement-is a common inference. Drawing upon ethnographic research in New York and recent epidemiological literature, this article criticizes such an approach on empirical, methodological, and historical grounds. It argues instead t…
Held in Abeyance
Some Old Questions for the New Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
The WHO cross-cultural studies of schizophrenia exemplify both the achievements and the pitfalls of large-scale psychiatric epidemiology. Their logistical and technical advances have been justly celebrated; the consistent-and unexpected-finding of better outcome in the developing than in the developed world continues to vex analysts. At the same time, anthropological critics have not been shy about pointing up the limitations and blind spots of s…
Mapping resilience pathways of Indigenous youth in five circumpolar communities
This introduction to the Special Issue Indigenous Youth Resilience in the Arctic reviews relevant resilience theory and research, with particular attention to Arctic Indigenous youth. Current perspectives on resilience, as well as the role of social determinants, and community resilience processes in understanding resilience in Indigenous circumpolar settings are reviewed. The distinctive role for qualitative inquiry in understanding these framew…
Being responsible, respectful, trying to keep the tradition alive
Indigenous circumpolar youth are experiencing challenges of growing up in a context much different from that of their parents and their grandparents due to rapid and imposed social change. Our study is interested in community resilience: the meaning systems, resources, and relationships that structure how youth go about overcoming difficulties. The research reflects an understanding that social and cultural ecologies influence people's available …
Estimating Numbers of Unsheltered Homeless People Through Plant-Capture and Postcount Survey Methods
Objectives. We sought to increase the accuracy of New York City’s estimates of its unsheltered homeless population. Methods. We employed 2 approaches to increasing count accuracy: a plant-capture strategy in which embedded decoys (or “plants”) were used to estimate the proportion of visible homeless people missed by enumerators and a postcount survey of service users designed to estimate the proportion of unsheltered homeless people who were not …
Public Shelter as “a Hybrid Institution”
The histories of public shelter in Chicago and New York show that homelessness among single men has typically been viewed as a problem of troubled—and troublesome—individuals. In this viewpoint, the link between the labor market and emergency shelter use, so obvious during times of economic depression, has been lost. Shelters historically have been “hybrid institutions,” plugging gaps in the formal institutional array of supports, while at the sa…
Embodying Recovery
The murky middle ground - When ethnographers engage public health
On ‘False, Collusive Objectification’
In this paper, we discuss a problem in qualitative interviewing labeled by Bourdieu as 'false, collusive objectification'. As described by Bourdieu, interviews where this occurs appear authentic because they often echo social science concepts and terminology and therefore may please the interviewer; however, they are actually unusable. We evaluate Bourdieu's claim for the existence of 'false' interviews in light of the predominant postmodern posi…
Redistribution and its Discontents
Refusal of services has long been treated as prima facie evidence of a disordered mind; this paper inquires instead into the tainted nature of the offer. I first sketch the conflicted nature of relief in the American welfare state—hedged so as to ensure only the truly needy will apply—and the way symbolic means are deployed to that end. I then go on to suggest that refusal to accept aid on those terms (even among the street-dwelling, psychiatrica…
Commentary
Menstruation and homelessness
A growing literature attests to menstrual management difficulties of girls, women and other people who menstruate. Largely ignored are the menstruation-management needs of people experiencing homelessness. We explored these realities in New York City through in-depth interviews with individuals living on the street and in shelters (n = 22), key informant interviews with staff at government agencies, shelters and service provider organizations (n …
Signing on for dirty work
As applied anthropologists used to working at arm's length from public psychiatry, we step out of the daily grind to take stock of the challenges of taking on ethnography entrained-harnessed to the implementation of a new program. These include the loss of critical distance, the struggles to negotiate locally viable forms of authority and relevance, the necessity of sustaining a Janus-faced relation with principal players, the urgency of seeing t…
Central Role of Relatedness in Alaska Native Youth Resilience
This qualitative study of youth resilience takes place in an Alaska Native community, which has undergone rapid, imposed social change over the last three generations. Elders, and successive generations have grown up in strikingly different social, economic and political contexts. Youth narratives of relationships in the context of adolescent growth and development offer insights to better understand culturally‐patterned experience, continuity an…
Medicine, Rationality, and Experience
Medicine, Rationality, and Experience. Byron J. Good. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994(cloth and paper). xvii. 242 pp
Cervantes' puzzle ? A commentary on Alex Cohen's ?Prognosis for Schizophrenia in the third world
Research Findings as Testimony
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kim Hopper; Research Findings as Testimony: A Note on the Ethnographer as Expert Witness. Human Organization 1 June 1990; 49 (2): 110–113. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.49.2.817138613082v06l Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refer…
Reflections on the anthropology of public psychiatry
Fresh Thickets of Trouble
THE ARTICLES REVIEWED here revisit old quandaries of anthropological research—the terms and conditions of access, protocols of confidentiality, routine (if inadvertent) betrayals of informants, complicity in embedding structures of power, and ambiguities of reciprocity—hand explore new variations of these and other problems. Informed consent raises distinctive problems in field settings not adequately addressed by IRB prescriptions or conventiona…
Exploring the availability and accessibility of menstrual friendly public toilets (MFPTs) in urban spaces
There is a significant gap in the provision of MFPTs in urban centers. Further research is needed to understand the extent of challenges related to accessibility, structural amenities, and availability of MHH-related resources, and how they can best be addressed. Our study's findings underscore the need for the prioritization of MFPTs in public spaces to ensure all individuals have equitable access to manage their menstrual cycles
Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics
Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland. Anniversary edition, revised and expanded. Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 359 pp
Radical Caucuses
Of Language and the Sorcerer's Appendix
So Far Disordered in Mind
Case Studies
Hopper and Kittrie comment separately on the case of a homeless woman who froze to death on a city street. They discuss the extent to which society is obligated to intervene in protecting persons in need of care who refuse to accept intervention, balancing the demands of personal autonomy against communal responsibility. Both commentators agree that New York City's Protective Services Law, since streamlined, proved ineffective in its initial appl…
The new mendicancy
An ethnographic study of the homeless poor in New York City suggests that significant changes have taken place in the size and composition of that population during the past 15 years. Among the disenfranchised, the mentally disabled figure prominently, many of them casualties of state deinstitutionalization and restricted admission policies. This paper argues that in the absence of safe and accessible shelter, rehabilitation efforts are doomed to…
Medicine and the Management of Living
Recovery from Schizophrenia
Book Notes
Book Notes
More Than Passing Strange
The presence of psychiatric disturbance is a much-noted feature of the new urban homelessness in the United States. An impaired capacity model of homelessness-which assumes that the disorder is responsible for the displacement-is a common inference. Drawing upon ethnographic research in New York and recent epidemiological literature, this article criticizes such an approach on empirical, methodological, and historical grounds. It argues instead t…
Public Shelter as “a Hybrid Institution”
The histories of public shelter in Chicago and New York show that homelessness among single men has typically been viewed as a problem of troubled—and troublesome—individuals. In this viewpoint, the link between the labor market and emergency shelter use, so obvious during times of economic depression, has been lost. Shelters historically have been “hybrid institutions,” plugging gaps in the formal institutional array of supports, while at the sa…
Research Findings as Testimony
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kim Hopper; Research Findings as Testimony: A Note on the Ethnographer as Expert Witness. Human Organization 1 June 1990; 49 (2): 110–113. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.49.2.817138613082v06l Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refer…
Some Old Questions for the New Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
The WHO cross-cultural studies of schizophrenia exemplify both the achievements and the pitfalls of large-scale psychiatric epidemiology. Their logistical and technical advances have been justly celebrated; the consistent-and unexpected-finding of better outcome in the developing than in the developed world continues to vex analysts. At the same time, anthropological critics have not been shy about pointing up the limitations and blind spots of s…
Cervantes' puzzle ? A commentary on Alex Cohen's ?Prognosis for Schizophrenia in the third world
Society for Urban Thropology
Held in Abeyance
Definitional quandaries and other hazards in counting the homeless
Complexities of both definition and dynamics suggest that the unit of analysis in research on homelessness may need rethinking. Wright and Devine's corrective effort can be criticized on the grounds that it inflates the shortcomings of the admittedly flawed 1990 S-Night count, applies relative proportions from an unrepresentative local sample, and smuggles in an overly inclusive notion of homelessness
Society for Urban Anthropology
Fresh Thickets of Trouble
Fresh Thickets of Trouble
THE ARTICLES REVIEWED here revisit old quandaries of anthropological research—the terms and conditions of access, protocols of confidentiality, routine (if inadvertent) betrayals of informants, complicity in embedding structures of power, and ambiguities of reciprocity—hand explore new variations of these and other problems. Informed consent raises distinctive problems in field settings not adequately addressed by IRB prescriptions or conventiona…
Contract Knowing
On Contract Knowing
Du droit à l'hébergement au droit au logement. Quinze ans de mobilisation en faveur des sans-domicile aux États-Unis
Cet article retrace l’activité des organisations ayant pris position en faveur des sans-domicile aux USA, et leur écartèlement entre la réponse à l’urgence et la lutte à plus long terme contre les inégalités. Depuis maintenant une vingtaine d’années, ces organisations ont eu recours à de multiples modes d’action: occupations d’édifices publics, grèves de la faim, lobbying, manifestations, procès, recherches et articles de journaux. Elles ont joué…
Medicine, Rationality, and Experience
Medicine, Rationality, and Experience. Byron J. Good. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994(cloth and paper). xvii. 242 pp
Walking Away Together
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