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3 results foundAuthor: Rosen, Eva Title: A "Perversion" of Choice: Sex Work Offers Just Enough in Chicago's Urban Ghetto Summary: In an apartment building on Chicago’s Southside, fifty of the seventy-five residents are sex workers. Our study uses in-depth interviews and participant observation of Chicago’s sex work economy to argue that sex work is one constituent part of an overall low-wage, off- the-books economy of resource exchange among individuals in a bounded geographic setting. To an outsider, the decision to be a sex worker seems irrational; in this paper we argue that specific localized conditions invert this decision and render it entirely rational. For the men and women in our study, sex work acts as a short-term solution that satisfices the demands of persistent poverty and instability, and it provides a meaningful option in the quest for a job that provides autonomy and personal fulfillment. Details: New York: Center for Urban Research and Policy, Columbia University, 2009. 37p. Source: Internet Resource; Accessed August 8, 2010 at: http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/pdf-files/rosenvenk.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/pdf-files/rosenvenk.pdf Shelf Number: 116302 Keywords: EthnographyProstitutesProstitutionSex Work (Chicago) |
Author: Gayle, Herbert Title: 'Forced Ripe!' How Youth of Three Selected Working Class Communities Assess their Identity, Support, and Authority System, including their Relationship with the Jamaican Police - A Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation and Research (PEER) Summary: The focus of this research is on youth forced ripe and their relationship with the institutions and services on which they depend. In Jamaica the term forced ripe or fouce ripe is used most commonly to describe fruits, especially mangoes that are overexposed to sunlight but lack the other nutritional support to be tasty. Forced ripe fruits are deficient. They are poor tasting and therefore easily discarded. From the ground a forced ripe mango may seem fit but is a disappointment when it is plucked from the branches. Many adults use the metaphor fouce ripe to describe youth, but do so without fully assessing its implications. Many make an assumption of agency, which suggests that the youth are largely responsible for their development or graduation into adulthood and therefore are to blame for the problems or challenges associated with the decisions they make. This position seems to ignore the fact that youth depend on several social services and institutions to develop or at least survive. Many adults ignore the social structures of the Jamaican society, the lack of opportunities and the various forms of abuse that youth endure which force them to become adults prematurely. Much more nurture and protection are needed from the social institutions on which working class youth depend if they are to become properly riped fruits or young adults who can make a positive contribution to themselves, their families, their communities and the Jamaican society. The Forced Ripe Report is divided into four sections. Section (i) is an introduction and sets out the policy context of the study, as well as provides a brief synopsis of the findings. Section (ii) is the methodology. It outlines the objectives of the study, explains the selection of the three communities, and discusses the PEER method and how it was employed in the study. Section (iii) is the findings and core of the study. Section (iv), the final part presents some suggestions for strengthening agency and transforming social institutions in ways that empower young people, especially those of the working class. Details: Jamaica: The University of the West Indies, 2007. 89p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 5, 2012 at http://198.170.76.2/jamspred/Forced_Ripe_Gayle_with_Levy.pdf Year: 2007 Country: Jamaica URL: Shelf Number: 123978 Keywords: Child Abuse and Neglect (Jamaica)Child MaltreatmentEthnography |
Author: Bania, Melanie L. Title: New Ways of Working? Crime Prevention and Community Safety within Ottawa's Community Development Framework Summary: Over the past few decades, there has been a shift in crime control discourses, from an almost exclusive focus on traditional criminal justice objectives and practices, to attention to ‘community’ and a range of strategies that seek to prevent crime and increase safety. Overall, evaluations of the community mobilization approach to crime prevention and safety conclude that these initiatives have generally demonstrated limited long-term impacts on ‘crime’ and safety at the local level. Through the ‘what works’ lens, the limits of the approach have typically been attributed to implementation challenges related to outreach and mobilization, and inadequate resourcing. Through a more critical lens, using studies on governmentality as a starting point, this study examines the mechanisms through which crime prevention and community safety became thinkable as sites of governance in Canada, and more specifically within the Community Development Framework (CDF) in Ottawa (ON). To this end, I conducted an ethnography using a triangulation of data collection methods, including extensive fieldwork and direct participant observation within the CDF. The findings of this ethnography describe in detail how the CDF emerged and unfolded (from 2008 to 2010) from a variety of perspectives. These findings show that the CDF encountered a number of common challenges associated with program implementation and community-based evaluation. However, the lack of progress made towards adhering to CDF principles and reaching CDF goals cannot be reduced to these failures alone. The CDF highlights the importance of locating the community approach to crime prevention within its wider socio-political context, and of paying attention to its numerous ‘messy actualities’. These include the dynamics and repercussions of: governing at a distance and of the dispersal of social control; the neoliberal creation and responsibilization of choice-makers; relations of power, knowledge and the nature of expertise; the messiness of the notion of ‘community’; bureaucratic imperatives and professional interests; the words versus deeds of community policing; and processes relevant to resistance within current arrangements. Details: Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 2012. 367p. Source: Doctoral Thesis: Internet Resource: Accessed March 13, 2012 at http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/fr/bitstream/handle/10393/20723/Bania_Melanie_L._2012_thesis.pdf?sequence=1 Year: 2012 Country: Canada URL: http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/fr/bitstream/handle/10393/20723/Bania_Melanie_L._2012_thesis.pdf?sequence=1 Shelf Number: 124527 Keywords: Community Safety (Canada)Crime Prevention (Canada)Ethnography |