Matthew D Marr
Biographic Data
| ID | 199333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew D Marr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew D |
| FAMILY NAME | Marr |
| SIGNATURE | MARR M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5184-8170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Religion’s roles in community integration after homelessness: Supportive housing residents’ uses of spiritual practices amid trauma, discrimination, and stigma
Background: Integration into a community after homelessness, while often difficult, can foster positive outcomes such as housing retention and improved health. However, research has understudied the roles of spiritual practices in community integration after homelessness. Methods: We conducted a grounded analysis of these processes using qualitative interviews with 27 supportive housing residents in Miami. Results: Even after moving into supporti…
Perceptions of Local Leaders Regarding Postdisaster Relocation of Residents in the Face of Rising Seas
Despite the growing literature on sea level rise (SLR), the current understanding of how SLR risks influence postdisaster relocation remains limited. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by examining how local leaders (i.e., public officials and community leaders) perceive: (a) resident relocation decisions in a disaster-affected community that is also vulnerable to SLR; and (b) the role of SLR in residents’ relocation decisions. Based on the …
Safe but stifled: Assessing the impact of space and place on risk and adaptive response among shelter residents during the Covid-19 pandemic
Managing service hubs in Miami and Osaka: Between capacious commons and meagre street-level bureaucracies
As key sites of governance and poverty management, service hubs are conspicuous inner-city clusters of voluntary sector organizations that serve vulnerable urban populations, including people grappling with homelessness, substance abusers and mental illness. In this paper, we frame service hubs as potentially embodying capacious commons on the one hand, and meagre street-level bureaucracies on the other, reconstituting Lipsky’s individual focus t…
More than Bare-Bones Survival? From the Urban Margins to the Urban Commons
We revisit the urban margins by recasting service hubs—conspicuous clusters of helping agencies in inner-city locales, designed to serve vulnerable populations—as both spaces of survival but potentially transformative, emerging as so-called cracks in the city. We undertake this recasting using the concept of the commons. Using case studies in London, Miami, and Osaka, we focus on the everyday practices of commoning and the role that service hubs …
Miami in Transformation during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Participatory Visual Culture Analysis
While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt around the world, Miami, Florida is one example of the specific and unique ways in which this pandemic is experienced. Drawing on the concepts of visual culture analysis and disaster literature, this article analyses how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the everyday lives of people living in this subtropical American city. Specifically, this study draws on data collected from a digital part…
Finding Security on Skid Row: The Positive Role of Organizational and Social Ties in Service Hubs in the United States and Japan
Service hubs are neighborhoods where homelessness and efforts to address it cluster. Are these "skid rows" jails without bars, or are there ways that service hubs bolster residents' feelings of security about their lives? To address these questions, I analyze ethnographic interview data from sixty residents of four hubs-Skid Row, Los Angeles; Overtown, Miami; Kamagasaki, Osaka; and San'ya, Tokyo. I find that in these service hubs, residents' onto…
The Ohaka (Grave) Project: Post-secular social service delivery and resistant necropolitics in San'ya, Tokyo
This is an ethnography of a Buddhist, Catholic, and secular collaboration tending to the souls of marginalized men in San'ya, Tokyo's former day labor ghetto. How does this post-secular project focused on death and the afterlife reshape relationships that bond the living and the dead? How does it relate to neoliberal biopolitics of urban poverty management? This paper demonstrates how the project subverts traditional Japanese patrilineal necrosoc…
Urban Welfare Regimes, Organizational Cultures, and Client-Staff Tie Activation: A Comparison of Transitional Housing Programs in Los Angeles and Tokyo
With state safety nets failing to keep up with expanding urban poverty, ties to community organizations can provide crucial resources. But what explains variation in such tie activation at urban, organizational, and individual levels? I advance a multilevel framework of organizational client–staff tie activation that centralizes the role of trust and specifies effects of multiple social contexts. I apply the framework to an exploratory comparison…
Vínculos sociales y subsistencia en los «Templos de refugio» en Japón: Una exploración de las influencias en la situación de calle entre los jornaleros de los yoseba en Tokio
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Pathways out of Homelessness in Los Angeles and Tokyo: Multilevel Contexts of Limited Mobility amid Advanced Urban Marginality
The widespread entrenchment of gaping urban inequality has aroused concern about how economic, demographic and (neoliberal) ideological globalization interacts with local conditions to shape its magnitude, manifestations and experiences. This article explores how the process of exiting homelessness is affected by an interaction of social contexts operating at multiple levels, from the global to the individual. I advance and assess a multilevel fr…
Any Space Left? Homeless Resistance by Place-Type in Los Angeles County
This study develops a more nuanced concept of homeless resistance, incorporating a range of resistance behaviors (exit, adaptation, persistence, and voice) that bridge the gap between current frameworks that either romanticize or ignore it. We also consider the possibility that different kinds of space may theoretically allow for different kinds of resistance. To this end, we employ an ecological approach to homeless space by classifying Los Ange…
Towards a contextual approach to the place–homeless survival nexus: An exploratory case study of Los Angeles County
Seeking Work Daily: Supply, Demand, and Spatial Dimensions of Day Labor in Two Global Cities
Day labor, the industry in which workers, primarily men, seek temporary employment daily in open-air street markets or curb-side hiring sites, is a burgeoning market in the United States and a historically important, but declining industry in Japan. Using data from surveys of day laborers in Tokyo and Los Angeles, we analyze the unique characteristics of these two markets, comparing and contrasting the workers, the demand for their employment, an…
Maintaining Autonomy: The Plight of the American Skid Row and Japanese Yoseba
This article applies a social order analysis to both the classic American skid rows and the Japanese yoseba (day labor pools) and finds that many of the resources that were available in the American skid rows such as casual labor, affordable SRO-style housing, reciprocal bonds of friendship, and cheap eateries are still available in the Japanese yoseba. However, as urban America faced economic and ecological changes in the post WWII era which eve…
Any Space Left? Homeless Resistance by Place-Type in Los Angeles County
This study develops a more nuanced concept of homeless resistance, incorporating a range of resistance behaviors (exit, adaptation, persistence, and voice) that bridge the gap between current frameworks that either romanticize or ignore it. We also consider the possibility that different kinds of space may theoretically allow for different kinds of resistance. To this end, we employ an ecological approach to homeless space by classifying Los Ange…
Towards a contextual approach to the place–homeless survival nexus: An exploratory case study of Los Angeles County
Seeking Work Daily: Supply, Demand, and Spatial Dimensions of Day Labor in Two Global Cities
Day labor, the industry in which workers, primarily men, seek temporary employment daily in open-air street markets or curb-side hiring sites, is a burgeoning market in the United States and a historically important, but declining industry in Japan. Using data from surveys of day laborers in Tokyo and Los Angeles, we analyze the unique characteristics of these two markets, comparing and contrasting the workers, the demand for their employment, an…
Pathways out of Homelessness in Los Angeles and Tokyo: Multilevel Contexts of Limited Mobility amid Advanced Urban Marginality
The widespread entrenchment of gaping urban inequality has aroused concern about how economic, demographic and (neoliberal) ideological globalization interacts with local conditions to shape its magnitude, manifestations and experiences. This article explores how the process of exiting homelessness is affected by an interaction of social contexts operating at multiple levels, from the global to the individual. I advance and assess a multilevel fr…
More than Bare-Bones Survival? From the Urban Margins to the Urban Commons
We revisit the urban margins by recasting service hubs—conspicuous clusters of helping agencies in inner-city locales, designed to serve vulnerable populations—as both spaces of survival but potentially transformative, emerging as so-called cracks in the city. We undertake this recasting using the concept of the commons. Using case studies in London, Miami, and Osaka, we focus on the everyday practices of commoning and the role that service hubs …
The Ohaka (Grave) Project: Post-secular social service delivery and resistant necropolitics in San'ya, Tokyo
This is an ethnography of a Buddhist, Catholic, and secular collaboration tending to the souls of marginalized men in San'ya, Tokyo's former day labor ghetto. How does this post-secular project focused on death and the afterlife reshape relationships that bond the living and the dead? How does it relate to neoliberal biopolitics of urban poverty management? This paper demonstrates how the project subverts traditional Japanese patrilineal necrosoc…
Finding Security on Skid Row: The Positive Role of Organizational and Social Ties in Service Hubs in the United States and Japan
Service hubs are neighborhoods where homelessness and efforts to address it cluster. Are these "skid rows" jails without bars, or are there ways that service hubs bolster residents' feelings of security about their lives? To address these questions, I analyze ethnographic interview data from sixty residents of four hubs-Skid Row, Los Angeles; Overtown, Miami; Kamagasaki, Osaka; and San'ya, Tokyo. I find that in these service hubs, residents' onto…
Urban Welfare Regimes, Organizational Cultures, and Client-Staff Tie Activation: A Comparison of Transitional Housing Programs in Los Angeles and Tokyo
With state safety nets failing to keep up with expanding urban poverty, ties to community organizations can provide crucial resources. But what explains variation in such tie activation at urban, organizational, and individual levels? I advance a multilevel framework of organizational client–staff tie activation that centralizes the role of trust and specifies effects of multiple social contexts. I apply the framework to an exploratory comparison…
Religion’s roles in community integration after homelessness: Supportive housing residents’ uses of spiritual practices amid trauma, discrimination, and stigma
Background: Integration into a community after homelessness, while often difficult, can foster positive outcomes such as housing retention and improved health. However, research has understudied the roles of spiritual practices in community integration after homelessness. Methods: We conducted a grounded analysis of these processes using qualitative interviews with 27 supportive housing residents in Miami. Results: Even after moving into supporti…
Miami in Transformation during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Participatory Visual Culture Analysis
While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt around the world, Miami, Florida is one example of the specific and unique ways in which this pandemic is experienced. Drawing on the concepts of visual culture analysis and disaster literature, this article analyses how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the everyday lives of people living in this subtropical American city. Specifically, this study draws on data collected from a digital part…
Maintaining Autonomy: The Plight of the American Skid Row and Japanese Yoseba
This article applies a social order analysis to both the classic American skid rows and the Japanese yoseba (day labor pools) and finds that many of the resources that were available in the American skid rows such as casual labor, affordable SRO-style housing, reciprocal bonds of friendship, and cheap eateries are still available in the Japanese yoseba. However, as urban America faced economic and ecological changes in the post WWII era which eve…
Seeking Work Daily: Supply, Demand, and Spatial Dimensions of Day Labor in Two Global Cities
Day labor, the industry in which workers, primarily men, seek temporary employment daily in open-air street markets or curb-side hiring sites, is a burgeoning market in the United States and a historically important, but declining industry in Japan. Using data from surveys of day laborers in Tokyo and Los Angeles, we analyze the unique characteristics of these two markets, comparing and contrasting the workers, the demand for their employment, an…
Any Space Left? Homeless Resistance by Place-Type in Los Angeles County
This study develops a more nuanced concept of homeless resistance, incorporating a range of resistance behaviors (exit, adaptation, persistence, and voice) that bridge the gap between current frameworks that either romanticize or ignore it. We also consider the possibility that different kinds of space may theoretically allow for different kinds of resistance. To this end, we employ an ecological approach to homeless space by classifying Los Ange…
Towards a contextual approach to the place–homeless survival nexus: An exploratory case study of Los Angeles County
Pathways out of Homelessness in Los Angeles and Tokyo: Multilevel Contexts of Limited Mobility amid Advanced Urban Marginality
The widespread entrenchment of gaping urban inequality has aroused concern about how economic, demographic and (neoliberal) ideological globalization interacts with local conditions to shape its magnitude, manifestations and experiences. This article explores how the process of exiting homelessness is affected by an interaction of social contexts operating at multiple levels, from the global to the individual. I advance and assess a multilevel fr…
Vínculos sociales y subsistencia en los «Templos de refugio» en Japón: Una exploración de las influencias en la situación de calle entre los jornaleros de los yoseba en Tokio
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Urban Welfare Regimes, Organizational Cultures, and Client-Staff Tie Activation: A Comparison of Transitional Housing Programs in Los Angeles and Tokyo
With state safety nets failing to keep up with expanding urban poverty, ties to community organizations can provide crucial resources. But what explains variation in such tie activation at urban, organizational, and individual levels? I advance a multilevel framework of organizational client–staff tie activation that centralizes the role of trust and specifies effects of multiple social contexts. I apply the framework to an exploratory comparison…
Miami in Transformation during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Participatory Visual Culture Analysis
While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt around the world, Miami, Florida is one example of the specific and unique ways in which this pandemic is experienced. Drawing on the concepts of visual culture analysis and disaster literature, this article analyses how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the everyday lives of people living in this subtropical American city. Specifically, this study draws on data collected from a digital part…
Finding Security on Skid Row: The Positive Role of Organizational and Social Ties in Service Hubs in the United States and Japan
Service hubs are neighborhoods where homelessness and efforts to address it cluster. Are these "skid rows" jails without bars, or are there ways that service hubs bolster residents' feelings of security about their lives? To address these questions, I analyze ethnographic interview data from sixty residents of four hubs-Skid Row, Los Angeles; Overtown, Miami; Kamagasaki, Osaka; and San'ya, Tokyo. I find that in these service hubs, residents' onto…
The Ohaka (Grave) Project: Post-secular social service delivery and resistant necropolitics in San'ya, Tokyo
This is an ethnography of a Buddhist, Catholic, and secular collaboration tending to the souls of marginalized men in San'ya, Tokyo's former day labor ghetto. How does this post-secular project focused on death and the afterlife reshape relationships that bond the living and the dead? How does it relate to neoliberal biopolitics of urban poverty management? This paper demonstrates how the project subverts traditional Japanese patrilineal necrosoc…
Managing service hubs in Miami and Osaka: Between capacious commons and meagre street-level bureaucracies
As key sites of governance and poverty management, service hubs are conspicuous inner-city clusters of voluntary sector organizations that serve vulnerable urban populations, including people grappling with homelessness, substance abusers and mental illness. In this paper, we frame service hubs as potentially embodying capacious commons on the one hand, and meagre street-level bureaucracies on the other, reconstituting Lipsky’s individual focus t…
More than Bare-Bones Survival? From the Urban Margins to the Urban Commons
We revisit the urban margins by recasting service hubs—conspicuous clusters of helping agencies in inner-city locales, designed to serve vulnerable populations—as both spaces of survival but potentially transformative, emerging as so-called cracks in the city. We undertake this recasting using the concept of the commons. Using case studies in London, Miami, and Osaka, we focus on the everyday practices of commoning and the role that service hubs …
Perceptions of Local Leaders Regarding Postdisaster Relocation of Residents in the Face of Rising Seas
Despite the growing literature on sea level rise (SLR), the current understanding of how SLR risks influence postdisaster relocation remains limited. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by examining how local leaders (i.e., public officials and community leaders) perceive: (a) resident relocation decisions in a disaster-affected community that is also vulnerable to SLR; and (b) the role of SLR in residents’ relocation decisions. Based on the …
Safe but stifled: Assessing the impact of space and place on risk and adaptive response among shelter residents during the Covid-19 pandemic
Religion’s roles in community integration after homelessness: Supportive housing residents’ uses of spiritual practices amid trauma, discrimination, and stigma
Background: Integration into a community after homelessness, while often difficult, can foster positive outcomes such as housing retention and improved health. However, research has understudied the roles of spiritual practices in community integration after homelessness. Methods: We conducted a grounded analysis of these processes using qualitative interviews with 27 supportive housing residents in Miami. Results: Even after moving into supporti…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social science (6 works)