Leontina Hormel

Trailer Park America

Reimagining Working-Class Communities

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging the stereotype of trailer parks as magnets for stigmatized people, sociologist Leontina Hormel investigates how the closing of a mobile home park in rural northern Idaho led to community activism among its residents: single-mother households, veterans, recovering addicts, and people with disabilities who fought for their rights and dignity.   

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781978829466
• ISBN-10: 1978829469
• Artikelnr.: 67670383

Autorenporträt

LEONTINA HORMEL is a professor of sociology at the University of Idaho. Her research interests include political economy, environmental sociology, international development, community action, and gender and class inequalities. She has conducted ethnographic and survey work in Ukraine, in the Russian Federation, and throughout the state of Idaho.  

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD BY DAWN TACHELL
CHRONOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
Crisis 
1 WHO BELONGS ON THE PALOUSE?
2 INVENTING WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITIES
3 MAKING A FUNCTIONAL COMMUNITY AMID DISORDER
4 VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE
Flushing the Public Good
5 RED TAGS
The Letter of the Law Kills
6 SYRINGA REFUGEES
7 DEATH OF A COMMUNITY
8 TRAILER PARK POLITICS
Recognizing Working-Class People’s Knowledge
and Mobilization
9 TRAILER PARK AMERICA
Syringa Residents’ Lessons to the Public
APPENDIX: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX