Trailer Park America

Reimagining Working-Class Communities

Leontina Hormel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

284 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2946-6 (ISBN)

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In rural northern Idaho in the winter of 2013-2014, Syringa Mobile Home Park’s water system was contaminated by sewage, resulting in residents’ water being shut off for 93 days. By summer 2018 Syringa had closed, forcing residents to relocate or face homelessness. Trailer Park America chronicles how residents dealt with regulatory agencies, frequent boil order notices, threats of closure, and class-based social stigma over this period. Despite all this, what was seen as a dysfunctional, ‘disorderly’ community by outsiders was instead a refuge where veterans, women heads of households, and people with disabilities or substance use disorders were supported and understood. The embattled Syringa community also organized to defend the rights and dignity of residents and served as a site for negotiating with local government, culminating in a class-action lawsuit that reached the federal level. The experiences Syringa residents faced in this conservative, predominately white region of the United States are emblematic of the growing national and global crisis in affordable housing and home ownership, with declining work conditions and incomes for the working-class.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	22 color and 9 B-W figures
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2946-9 / 1978829469
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2946-6 / 9781978829466
Zustand	Neuware