Brian Hennigan
Biographic Data
| ID | 153855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Hennigan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Hennigan |
| SIGNATURE | HENNIGAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8559-2225 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Both sides of the Paycheck
This article documents how job readiness programs-as anchors of the devolved organizational landscape of neoliberal poverty governance in the United States-endeavor to instill within the poor not simply the virtue of work, but the virtue of thrift, and thus orient them to 'both sides of the paycheck.' Using a comparative ethnographic study of two community-based, government-funded nonprofit job readiness programs, we show that this pedagogic focu…
Investable poverty
The management of poverty is undergoing significant changes with the rise of social investment states. In this context, we examine how governmental concern about the long-term public cost of poverty is increasingly modulating the selection, sequencing and targeting of interventions that seek to manage poverty. Using examples drawn from the management of homelessness in Anglo-American cities, we outline a research agenda related to the objectifica…
From Madonna to Marx
Homeless people, so the story goes, are regularly excluded from spaces of consumption because they offend customers. For a significant portion of homelessness scholarship, such exclusion is the point of departure for subsequent analysis. Others, by examining homelessness within these consumption spaces, theorise that anti‐homeless policies and attitudes emerge because homeless people cannot or have not properly consumed (e.g. nice clothes, housin…
Compassionate revanchism
In this article we move beyond the binary division between care and punishment in urban studies of homelessness to examine how caring institutions are themselves crucial to the punitive and exclusionary project of capitalist urbanisation. Based on ethnographic and archival analysis of homelessness management in Fresno, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, we show how punitive measures and institutions of care often emerge simultaneously and operate …
Disciples and dreamers
Jobless and Godless
In the wake of welfare reform, there has been growing scholarly attention to 'religious neoliberalism' and, specifically, to the practices and politics of faith-based organizations in neoliberalized landscapes of social service provision. While much of this scholarship has suggested a seamless 'fusion' between conservative evangelicalism and neoliberal ideology, ethnographic research has tended to reveal the far more complicated, and contradictor…
Work as unto the Lord
House broken
Housing First (HF) is the new orthodoxy when dealing with the small, long-term, visible and recalcitrant fraction of the greater homeless population. Unlike more traditional, “treatment first” models that expect “self-sufficiency” before clients should achieve housing, this markedly cost-effective program/policy rapidly places homeless people who “consume” the most state resources into their own subsidized apartment. Many conclude that such an up…
House broken
Housing First (HF) is the new orthodoxy when dealing with the small, long-term, visible and recalcitrant fraction of the greater homeless population. Unlike more traditional, “treatment first” models that expect “self-sufficiency” before clients should achieve housing, this markedly cost-effective program/policy rapidly places homeless people who “consume” the most state resources into their own subsidized apartment. Many conclude that such an up…
Compassionate revanchism
In this article we move beyond the binary division between care and punishment in urban studies of homelessness to examine how caring institutions are themselves crucial to the punitive and exclusionary project of capitalist urbanisation. Based on ethnographic and archival analysis of homelessness management in Fresno, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, we show how punitive measures and institutions of care often emerge simultaneously and operate …
Investable poverty
The management of poverty is undergoing significant changes with the rise of social investment states. In this context, we examine how governmental concern about the long-term public cost of poverty is increasingly modulating the selection, sequencing and targeting of interventions that seek to manage poverty. Using examples drawn from the management of homelessness in Anglo-American cities, we outline a research agenda related to the objectifica…
Work as unto the Lord
Jobless and Godless
In the wake of welfare reform, there has been growing scholarly attention to 'religious neoliberalism' and, specifically, to the practices and politics of faith-based organizations in neoliberalized landscapes of social service provision. While much of this scholarship has suggested a seamless 'fusion' between conservative evangelicalism and neoliberal ideology, ethnographic research has tended to reveal the far more complicated, and contradictor…
From Madonna to Marx
Homeless people, so the story goes, are regularly excluded from spaces of consumption because they offend customers. For a significant portion of homelessness scholarship, such exclusion is the point of departure for subsequent analysis. Others, by examining homelessness within these consumption spaces, theorise that anti‐homeless policies and attitudes emerge because homeless people cannot or have not properly consumed (e.g. nice clothes, housin…
Both sides of the Paycheck
This article documents how job readiness programs-as anchors of the devolved organizational landscape of neoliberal poverty governance in the United States-endeavor to instill within the poor not simply the virtue of work, but the virtue of thrift, and thus orient them to 'both sides of the paycheck.' Using a comparative ethnographic study of two community-based, government-funded nonprofit job readiness programs, we show that this pedagogic focu…
House broken
Housing First (HF) is the new orthodoxy when dealing with the small, long-term, visible and recalcitrant fraction of the greater homeless population. Unlike more traditional, “treatment first” models that expect “self-sufficiency” before clients should achieve housing, this markedly cost-effective program/policy rapidly places homeless people who “consume” the most state resources into their own subsidized apartment. Many conclude that such an up…
Work as unto the Lord
Disciples and dreamers
Jobless and Godless
In the wake of welfare reform, there has been growing scholarly attention to 'religious neoliberalism' and, specifically, to the practices and politics of faith-based organizations in neoliberalized landscapes of social service provision. While much of this scholarship has suggested a seamless 'fusion' between conservative evangelicalism and neoliberal ideology, ethnographic research has tended to reveal the far more complicated, and contradictor…
Investable poverty
The management of poverty is undergoing significant changes with the rise of social investment states. In this context, we examine how governmental concern about the long-term public cost of poverty is increasingly modulating the selection, sequencing and targeting of interventions that seek to manage poverty. Using examples drawn from the management of homelessness in Anglo-American cities, we outline a research agenda related to the objectifica…
From Madonna to Marx
Homeless people, so the story goes, are regularly excluded from spaces of consumption because they offend customers. For a significant portion of homelessness scholarship, such exclusion is the point of departure for subsequent analysis. Others, by examining homelessness within these consumption spaces, theorise that anti‐homeless policies and attitudes emerge because homeless people cannot or have not properly consumed (e.g. nice clothes, housin…
Compassionate revanchism
In this article we move beyond the binary division between care and punishment in urban studies of homelessness to examine how caring institutions are themselves crucial to the punitive and exclusionary project of capitalist urbanisation. Based on ethnographic and archival analysis of homelessness management in Fresno, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, we show how punitive measures and institutions of care often emerge simultaneously and operate …
Both sides of the Paycheck
This article documents how job readiness programs-as anchors of the devolved organizational landscape of neoliberal poverty governance in the United States-endeavor to instill within the poor not simply the virtue of work, but the virtue of thrift, and thus orient them to 'both sides of the paycheck.' Using a comparative ethnographic study of two community-based, government-funded nonprofit job readiness programs, we show that this pedagogic focu…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Ideology (4 works)