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“You Start with the Youth”: Narratives of Deservingness and Dissent at a Homeless Service Organization
Sociological Perspectives ( IF 1.780 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 , DOI: 10.1177/07311214211019431
Dilara Yarbrough 1
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As they provide social services to people experiencing poverty and homelessness, many nonprofit organizations perpetuate ideologies that obscure the political and economic causes of poverty and blame poor people for their plight. But the ideologies and practices of service provision are more diverse than many scholars of the nonprofit industry have assumed. What are the processes by which professionalized service organizations not tied to broader social movements might nonetheless facilitate rather than hinder structural explanations of inequality among their clients? Using ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews, and analysis of art and writing by young adults experiencing homelessness, I investigate the prevalence of structural explanations of poverty among clients at a large homeless youth service organization. I find that the organization’s liberal assimilationist narratives about “youth” facilitate more critical analyses of poverty and inequality among homeless participants. As the organization’s public-facing communications emphasize the positive meanings of youth to assert clients’ deservingness, homeless clients leverage the organization’s assimilationist discourse to advance more radical critiques of the systems that oppress them. Building on scholarship about the medicalization of homelessness and the nonprofit industrial complex, this case study demonstrates how multiple ideologies and practices spanning the continuum from repressive to mobilizing can take hold within a single organization, and by extension, the nonprofit service industry.



中文翻译:

“你从青年开始”:无家可归者服务组织的应得与异议的叙述

许多非营利组织在为贫困和无家可归的人提供社会服务时,使意识形态长期存在,掩盖了贫困的政治和经济原因,并将他们的困境归咎于穷人。但是,服务提供的意识形态和实践比非营利行业的许多学者所假设的更加多样化。与更广泛的社会运动无关的专业化服务组织通过哪些过程可能会促进而不是阻碍对客户之间不平等的结构性解释?通过人种学观察、深入访谈以及对无家可归的年轻人的艺术和写作分析,我调查了一家大型无家可归青年服务组织的客户对贫困的结构性解释的普遍性。我发现该组织关于“青年”的自由同化主义叙事促进了对无家可归参与者的贫困和不平等的更批判性分析。由于该组织面向公众的传播强调青年对维护客户应得的积极意义,无家可归的客户利用该组织的同化论话语来推进对压迫他们的制度的更激进的批评。本案例研究以无家可归者医疗化和非营利性工业综合体的学术研究为基础,展示了跨越从压制到动员的连续统一体的多种意识形态和实践如何在一个组织中占据主导地位,进而在非营利服务行业中占据一席之地。

更新日期:2021-06-30
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