Contextualizing Homelessness: Critical Theory, Homelessness, and Federal Policy Addressing the Homeless
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Foreword Chapter 1: Critical Theory & Homelessness - Critical Theory - Project Plan Chapter 2: Analytical Perspectives - Social Constructionism - Operations of Language - Rhetorical Analysis -- Ideographs -- Narratives and Characterizations Chapter 3: The McKinney Act of 1987 - Legislative Overview - Goals and Justification -- The Appearance of Homelessness -- The Changing Complexion of Homelessness - The Homeless in the McKinney Act -- Relative Political Power of the Homeless -- The McKinney Act's Sub-Target Populations -- Sub-Target Populations Missing from the McKinney Act - Critical Analysis Chapter 4: "Homelessness" in Context - Pre-Vagrancy Law Views - English Vagrancy Laws Through the Revolution - The Institutionalization of Alms-houses in the U.S. - New Deal Social Welfare Laws - Discussion Chapter 5: Science & Homelessness - Science and Knowledge of the Homeless - Competing Perceptions of Science - The Evolution (?) of Science's Knowledge of the Homeless -- Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century Science -- Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Century Science - Discussion Chapter 6: Conclusions & Critical Review - Implications - Critical Self-Appraisal Notes Bibliography