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Manufactured insecurity : mobile home parks and Americans' tenuous right to place / Esther Sullivan.
LIBRA HD7289.62.U6 S85 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sullivan, Esther, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mobile homes--Florida.
- Mobile homes.
- Mobile homes--Texas.
- Mobile homes--Sociological aspects.
- Florida.
- Texas.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 250 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Manufactured Insecurity is the first book to document the sociolegal and geospatial forces that shape life in the mobile home park, as well as the catalytic moments of upheaval that occur when mobile home parks are redeveloped and entire communities are displaced. Drawing on rich ethnographic data gathered before, during, and after mobile home park closures in the two states with the largest mobile home populations, Manufactured Insecurity investigates how social, legal, and market forces intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : halfway homeowners
- The mobile home in America and Americana
- Socio-spatial stigma and trailer trash
- Daily life under the specter of dislocation
- "We are not for sure wherever we are"
- Relocation and the paradox of state interventions
- Communities as currency within the mobile home empire.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sullivan, Esther, 1981- Manufactured insecurity.
- ISBN:
- 9780520295643
- 0520295641
- 9780520295667
- 0520295668
- OCLC:
- 1022988417
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