Toxic Homelessness
I explored topics surrounding toxic homelessness in Southern California. I investigated discrepancies in the total number of homeless people versus how many shelter beds are available nightly, as well as, homeless stigmas and the injustices that result. The views held by the general public on who is homeless and why likely holds direct correlation with justice programs, homeless assistance, and the lack thereof. I worked with a homeless shelter in Canterbury, England and trained to be a mentor to those who have found housing in an effort to help them maintain it.
Sustainability and utopianism: an ethnography of cultural critique in contemporary intentional communities
What is the text about – empirically?What phenomenon is drawn out in the text? A social process; a cultural and political-economic shift; a cultural “infrastructure;” an emergent assemblage of science-culture-technology-economics? The text is about utopianism and sustainability, an ethnography on contemporary intentional communities in Western North Carolina, and an assesment on how those intentional communities are a cultural critique. Where is this phenomenon located – in a neighborhood, in a country, in “Western Culture,” in a glo
MOHAMED, TAREK: QUESTIONING AN ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXT: ELYACHAR, JULIA: MARKETS OF DISPOSSESSION
SKETCHING ETHNOGRAPHYQuestioning a TextTarek M.