Homeless shelters and the blues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5018955 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian D Siener (Barnard College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 369-386 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02637758211067541 |
| OpenAlex | W4206220051 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
In this article, I analyze the emergence of New York City's infrastructure of homeless shelters dialectically, relationally, and historically. The members of Boogie Down Productions met in an incipient New York City homeless shelter in the mid-1980s. Their relationship and music is a window into a critical political consciousness of men living in homeless shelters because the artists gave expression to an emergent structure of feeling of resistance taking hold during intense changes to New York's political economy and its institutions. The paper first analyzes homeless policy and infrastructural change through a reading of archival sources and government reports and documents. The second section understands oral histories conducted with men living in a New York City homeless shelter as blues geographies-insurgent, critical explanations of these institutional spaces. Shelter residents actively challenge the material conditions, relations, and values that produce homeless shelters as essential instruments of the carceral state. I argue that they activate this resistance to the naturalization of shelters, and themselves as homeless, by narrating carceral spaces as abolitionist spaces
Art · Blues · Citizenship · Criminology · Feeling · Government (linguistics · Mass incarceration · Media studies · Naturalization · Political science · Politics · Prison · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
Race rebels
Working with class
Marxism and literature
Race for Profit
Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance
The Value of Homelessness
Uneven Development
Policing the Crisis
The Rise and Fall of the White Republic
Reckoning with Homelessness
The Prison and the Factory
Golden Gulag
It Ain't where you're from, it's where you're At
The Ambiguities of Homelessness Governance
Neoliberalizing Space
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction
The New Urban Frontier
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Prophets of the Hood
Shapeshifters
Neoliberal Subjectivities, the "New" Homelessness, and Struggles over Spaces of/in the City
Contested Development
Blues Geographies and the Security Turn
Black Noise
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |