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Spatial anomalies :Street people, sidewalk sitting, and the constested realms of public space.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Spatial anomalies :
Reminder of title:	Street people, sidewalk sitting, and the constested realms of public space.
Author:	Amster, Randall Jay.
Description:	212 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Pat Lauderdale.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-02, Section: A, page: 0761.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-02A.
Subject:	Sociology, Criminology and Penology.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3042547
ISBN:	0493562281

Spatial anomalies :Street people, sidewalk sitting, and the constested realms of public space.
Amster, Randall Jay.

Spatial anomalies :Street people, sidewalk sitting, and the constested realms of public space.[electronic resource] - 212 p.

Adviser: Pat Lauderdale.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2002.

Scholars, commentators, and activists alike have at times lamented the steady erosion of public space, charting its decline along with the concomitant rise of forces of development, commercialization, and privatization. An important and pervasive implication of these processes can be seen in the ongoing trend toward the criminalization of homelessness, evidenced by the more than 50 cities and municipalities in the United States that have enacted anti-homeless laws in the last decade, including ordinances prohibiting “urban camping,” “aggressive panhandling,” and sitting or lying on public sidewalks, often adopted at the behest of commercial interests. The official records, media reports, and personal experiences connected with the enactment of and subsequent challenge to a sidewalk sitting ordinance in Tempe, Arizona, in December 1998 provide a documentary foundation for this interdisciplinary study. In addition, participant observations, informal conversations, and in-depth interviews with street people, city officials, and social service providers help to locate the issues within the context of everyday life on the streets and the unique perspectives of homeless people, comprising a nascent ethnography of the lived experiences of globalization. Indeed, this work is intended to be useful in amplifying a generalized critique of the processes of globalization and urban development and in promoting action undoing the same, as well as encouraging the homeless and their advocates to contest policies of spatial exclusion. Situated among the spheres of legal geography, critical criminology, and socio-legal studies, this qualitative work seeks to discern patterns and discover interconnections among: (i) the impetus of development and gentrification; (ii) the enactment of anti-homeless ordinances and regulations; (iii) the material and ideological erosion of public space; (iv) emerging forces of resistance to these trends; and (v) the continuing viability of anti-systemic movements, alternative forms of living, and utopian imaginaries. Drawing upon events in Tempe for an intensive case study exploring these issues, the work will describe and document how economic changes in the city have contributed to processes of exclusion and containment, both materially in terms of spatial control and homeless bodies, as well as ideologically in terms of theming and elitism. Along the way, we will encounter “young urban professionals,” BIDS (business improvement districts), and the panopticon—skipping merrily toward that magical kingdom where none need confront the horrors of poverty while out consuming conspicuously, on Tempe's Mill Avenue and city streets the world over.

ISBN: 0493562281Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

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