Vincent Lyon‐callo
Biographic Data
| ID | 134403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Lyon‐callo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyon‐callo |
| SIGNATURE | CALLO V L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Punishment Monopoly
This review engages with Pem Davidson Buck’s The Punishment Monopoly: Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States. We position the book in relation to the political-cultural context of the United States, and outline and describe the general arguments and contours of the text. We then think with and in relation to Buck’s arguments in order to suggest the need for a politics of possibility—of exposing, defending, and…
Covid and Capitalism
How do we make sense of the ways in which COVID-19 has developed and been responded to in the United States? How can nondeterminist class analysis help us to understand why the pandemic has impacted the United States so severely compared to other nations? What do these policies and experiences reveal about current capitalist economic and social relations within the United States today? Are there possibilities for interventions through a nonessent…
Rethinking Marxism
In this essay the new editorial team introduce themselves, acknowledge the theoretical lineages and problematics that the journal has and will continue to explore, and highlight some of the themes that we expect to explore in the coming volumes. The essay provides both an account of the trajectories of capitalism through the last three decades (neoliberal and neocon counterrevolutions; the insurrection of the multitude, or the global crowd in the…
Designing Education for Living Well? Rethinking Public Education and Ethnographic Intervention
Escalating incidents of social suffering take the form of anxiety, depression, and suicide attempts among students in the United States. Often this emotional insecurity overlaps with an increased sense of precarity and economic insecurity. Is it possible that the very conditions that are producing sufferings may also open a possibility for interventions on an ontological level that produce new possibilities for redefining success and how to live …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Vincent Lyon-Callo and Boone W. Shear In the spring of 2017 a student came into my (Shear's) office to discuss coursework for the coming semester as well as life after college. As we talked a bit about how they were thinking about their future plans, their usually easy conversational flow sputtered and stiffened. They became visibly uncomfortable, hesitating and shifting in their seat. I asked if they were okay, …
Kalamazoo's Promise
Like many cities in the Midwestern United States in recent years, Kalamazoo, Michigan has experienced profound social and economic restructuring, resulting in significant job losses, poverty, homelessness, hunger, and racialized inequalities. Despite these conditions in Kalamazoo, many are attempting to improve social conditions by engaging in a wide range of activities such as downtown development projects, investments in education, living wage …
Homelessness or the Violence of Poverty and Exploitation
For a session at a Rethinking Marxism international conference, Talmadge Wright and Ann Kingsolver offered detailed and rich critical commentaries on my writing on homelessness. Ann Kingsolver, along with her students, further develops those thoughts in her essay appearing in this issue. Those interventions, along with my subsequent experiences, have resulted in my rethinking an earlier focus on neoliberal governance. This paper draws on over two…
Professionals, Artists, and Unions
Economic inequality continues to increase while the strength of private sector unions diminishes in the United States. Through an analysis of Catherine Mulder's Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians, I explore some of the challenges confronting unionized workers, hoping to transform the conditions as well as the possibilities for new strategies
To market, to market to buy a … middle class life? Insecurity, anxiety, and neoliberal education in Michigan
Corporatisation of universities and restructurings of K-12 schooling in the United States occurred during a period of broad economic, social and political restructurings, which have transformed the lives of middle-class Americans. Community and individual level investments in education are frequently represented as antidotes to increased insecurities confronting these subjects. This paper draws upon my interactions within both the school system a…
Inside the Zoo
On a September evening in 2005, the Kalamazoo, Michigan City Commission's poverty subcommittee held a public hearing in a church in one of the city's poorer areas. The purported goal was uncovering what city government could do to help economically vulnerable citizens. One commissioner asked what the city commission could do to "help you achieve the American dream." As another commissioner put it, "We're here to listen. You are the experts in you…
Cool Cities or Class Analysis
Recent economic and social restructurings have produced increased economic inequalities and authoritarian governmental interventions within the United States with seemingly little organized opposition. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research in Michigan, this paper explores the classic Marxist question of how we come to understand how and why human subjects respond to inequities in particular ways while other possible resistance strategie…
An Introduction to Rethinking Exploitation and Anthropology
This essay provides the rationale for a symposium organized out of a belief that the grounded ethnographic work of anthropologists could potentially make more significant contributions to an analysis of current conditions if analytical attention was focused upon the discursive processes of class exploitation. Participants were charged with explicitly considering nonessentialist class dynamics and the social processes of exploitation in their ethn…
Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance
Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in Northampton, Massachusetts, Lyon-Callo argues that homelessness must be understood within the context of increasing neoliberal policies, practices, and discourses. As advocates, activis…
Making Sense of Nimby poverty, power and community opposition to homeless shelters
Local citizens mobilizing in opposition to the presence of homeless people and services is increasingly common in communities across the United States. Such "'not in my backyard" politics have often been understood as resulting from prejudice, bigotry, or misguided understandings. I argue for an analysis of these social movements through considering how particular strategies and practices come to seem "natural" to social actors while other possib…
Medicalizing Homelessness
This article draws upon three years of ethnographic research within an emergency homeless shelter in Massachusetts to explore the subject-making effects of routine shelter helping practices. A medicalized discourse of deviancy is uncovered that provides the dominant conceptual framework within which both concerned homeless people and shelter staff remain enmeshed. As a result, helping practices focus on detecting, diagnosing, and treating underst…
Constraining Responses to Homelessness
Despite a wealth of scholarly studies detailing the link between systemic inequality and increased homelessness in the United States during the past two decades, routine responses to homelessness by concerned agents within the homeless sheltering industry often do not adequately address systemic concerns. Instead, the focus remains on treating perceived disorders of homeless people themselves. Using information from three years of activist ethnog…
Medicalizing Homelessness
This article draws upon three years of ethnographic research within an emergency homeless shelter in Massachusetts to explore the subject-making effects of routine shelter helping practices. A medicalized discourse of deviancy is uncovered that provides the dominant conceptual framework within which both concerned homeless people and shelter staff remain enmeshed. As a result, helping practices focus on detecting, diagnosing, and treating underst…
Making Sense of Nimby poverty, power and community opposition to homeless shelters
Local citizens mobilizing in opposition to the presence of homeless people and services is increasingly common in communities across the United States. Such "'not in my backyard" politics have often been understood as resulting from prejudice, bigotry, or misguided understandings. I argue for an analysis of these social movements through considering how particular strategies and practices come to seem "natural" to social actors while other possib…
Cool Cities or Class Analysis
Recent economic and social restructurings have produced increased economic inequalities and authoritarian governmental interventions within the United States with seemingly little organized opposition. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research in Michigan, this paper explores the classic Marxist question of how we come to understand how and why human subjects respond to inequities in particular ways while other possible resistance strategie…
Constraining Responses to Homelessness
Despite a wealth of scholarly studies detailing the link between systemic inequality and increased homelessness in the United States during the past two decades, routine responses to homelessness by concerned agents within the homeless sheltering industry often do not adequately address systemic concerns. Instead, the focus remains on treating perceived disorders of homeless people themselves. Using information from three years of activist ethnog…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Vincent Lyon-Callo and Boone W. Shear In the spring of 2017 a student came into my (Shear's) office to discuss coursework for the coming semester as well as life after college. As we talked a bit about how they were thinking about their future plans, their usually easy conversational flow sputtered and stiffened. They became visibly uncomfortable, hesitating and shifting in their seat. I asked if they were okay, …
Kalamazoo's Promise
Like many cities in the Midwestern United States in recent years, Kalamazoo, Michigan has experienced profound social and economic restructuring, resulting in significant job losses, poverty, homelessness, hunger, and racialized inequalities. Despite these conditions in Kalamazoo, many are attempting to improve social conditions by engaging in a wide range of activities such as downtown development projects, investments in education, living wage …
An Introduction to Rethinking Exploitation and Anthropology
This essay provides the rationale for a symposium organized out of a belief that the grounded ethnographic work of anthropologists could potentially make more significant contributions to an analysis of current conditions if analytical attention was focused upon the discursive processes of class exploitation. Participants were charged with explicitly considering nonessentialist class dynamics and the social processes of exploitation in their ethn…
Constraining Responses to Homelessness
Despite a wealth of scholarly studies detailing the link between systemic inequality and increased homelessness in the United States during the past two decades, routine responses to homelessness by concerned agents within the homeless sheltering industry often do not adequately address systemic concerns. Instead, the focus remains on treating perceived disorders of homeless people themselves. Using information from three years of activist ethnog…
Medicalizing Homelessness
This article draws upon three years of ethnographic research within an emergency homeless shelter in Massachusetts to explore the subject-making effects of routine shelter helping practices. A medicalized discourse of deviancy is uncovered that provides the dominant conceptual framework within which both concerned homeless people and shelter staff remain enmeshed. As a result, helping practices focus on detecting, diagnosing, and treating underst…
Making Sense of Nimby poverty, power and community opposition to homeless shelters
Local citizens mobilizing in opposition to the presence of homeless people and services is increasingly common in communities across the United States. Such "'not in my backyard" politics have often been understood as resulting from prejudice, bigotry, or misguided understandings. I argue for an analysis of these social movements through considering how particular strategies and practices come to seem "natural" to social actors while other possib…
Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance
Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in Northampton, Massachusetts, Lyon-Callo argues that homelessness must be understood within the context of increasing neoliberal policies, practices, and discourses. As advocates, activis…
Cool Cities or Class Analysis
Recent economic and social restructurings have produced increased economic inequalities and authoritarian governmental interventions within the United States with seemingly little organized opposition. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research in Michigan, this paper explores the classic Marxist question of how we come to understand how and why human subjects respond to inequities in particular ways while other possible resistance strategie…
An Introduction to Rethinking Exploitation and Anthropology
This essay provides the rationale for a symposium organized out of a belief that the grounded ethnographic work of anthropologists could potentially make more significant contributions to an analysis of current conditions if analytical attention was focused upon the discursive processes of class exploitation. Participants were charged with explicitly considering nonessentialist class dynamics and the social processes of exploitation in their ethn…
Inside the Zoo
On a September evening in 2005, the Kalamazoo, Michigan City Commission's poverty subcommittee held a public hearing in a church in one of the city's poorer areas. The purported goal was uncovering what city government could do to help economically vulnerable citizens. One commissioner asked what the city commission could do to "help you achieve the American dream." As another commissioner put it, "We're here to listen. You are the experts in you…
To market, to market to buy a … middle class life? Insecurity, anxiety, and neoliberal education in Michigan
Corporatisation of universities and restructurings of K-12 schooling in the United States occurred during a period of broad economic, social and political restructurings, which have transformed the lives of middle-class Americans. Community and individual level investments in education are frequently represented as antidotes to increased insecurities confronting these subjects. This paper draws upon my interactions within both the school system a…
Homelessness or the Violence of Poverty and Exploitation
For a session at a Rethinking Marxism international conference, Talmadge Wright and Ann Kingsolver offered detailed and rich critical commentaries on my writing on homelessness. Ann Kingsolver, along with her students, further develops those thoughts in her essay appearing in this issue. Those interventions, along with my subsequent experiences, have resulted in my rethinking an earlier focus on neoliberal governance. This paper draws on over two…
Professionals, Artists, and Unions
Economic inequality continues to increase while the strength of private sector unions diminishes in the United States. Through an analysis of Catherine Mulder's Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians, I explore some of the challenges confronting unionized workers, hoping to transform the conditions as well as the possibilities for new strategies
Kalamazoo's Promise
Like many cities in the Midwestern United States in recent years, Kalamazoo, Michigan has experienced profound social and economic restructuring, resulting in significant job losses, poverty, homelessness, hunger, and racialized inequalities. Despite these conditions in Kalamazoo, many are attempting to improve social conditions by engaging in a wide range of activities such as downtown development projects, investments in education, living wage …
Rethinking Marxism
In this essay the new editorial team introduce themselves, acknowledge the theoretical lineages and problematics that the journal has and will continue to explore, and highlight some of the themes that we expect to explore in the coming volumes. The essay provides both an account of the trajectories of capitalism through the last three decades (neoliberal and neocon counterrevolutions; the insurrection of the multitude, or the global crowd in the…
Designing Education for Living Well? Rethinking Public Education and Ethnographic Intervention
Escalating incidents of social suffering take the form of anxiety, depression, and suicide attempts among students in the United States. Often this emotional insecurity overlaps with an increased sense of precarity and economic insecurity. Is it possible that the very conditions that are producing sufferings may also open a possibility for interventions on an ontological level that produce new possibilities for redefining success and how to live …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Vincent Lyon-Callo and Boone W. Shear In the spring of 2017 a student came into my (Shear's) office to discuss coursework for the coming semester as well as life after college. As we talked a bit about how they were thinking about their future plans, their usually easy conversational flow sputtered and stiffened. They became visibly uncomfortable, hesitating and shifting in their seat. I asked if they were okay, …
Covid and Capitalism
How do we make sense of the ways in which COVID-19 has developed and been responded to in the United States? How can nondeterminist class analysis help us to understand why the pandemic has impacted the United States so severely compared to other nations? What do these policies and experiences reveal about current capitalist economic and social relations within the United States today? Are there possibilities for interventions through a nonessent…
The Punishment Monopoly
This review engages with Pem Davidson Buck’s The Punishment Monopoly: Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States. We position the book in relation to the political-cultural context of the United States, and outline and describe the general arguments and contours of the text. We then think with and in relation to Buck’s arguments in order to suggest the need for a politics of possibility—of exposing, defending, and…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Ethnography (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works)