TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Defeat in Recovery-Oriented Supported Housing
T2 - Moral Experience, Stigma, and Ideological Resistance
AU - Wright, Anthony G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments First, I must thank the staff and tenants of the Pinewood Apartments for allowing me into their lives. Additionally, I am indebted to Marc Musick, Javier Auyero, Ward Keeler, and John Traphagan for all their kind advice, encouragement, and support throughout my time as a student and during the research and writing process. I have also benefited tremendously from the insightful comments and encouragement of Estefana Ramos, Colin Pace, Cameron Nobile, and Dana Johnson. A special thanks to the Bernard and Audre Rapaport Foundation for funding this research. Finally, thanks to Mom, Dad, and Estefana for their unending love and support. This article is as much theirs as mine.
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - Drawing from ethnographic observations and interview data gathered during 6 months working as a home caregiver at the Pinewood Apartments, a recovery-oriented supported housing community in Texas, I demonstrate how stigma and social defeat were moral and social processes that pervaded life for all involved, including service providers. Yet, because of the extreme power differentials that characterized tenant-staff relationships, the assault of stigma and social defeat was much more frequent, existentially intense, and morally and materially consequential for certain tenants, whose attempts at ideological resistance were delegitimized by service providers, including myself, who were backed by the authority of dominant psychiatric and moralistic discourses concerning the inherent irrationality and irresponsibility of people with severe mental illness. Nevertheless, due to the indeterminate and at times inharmonious nature of moral experience, it is not my intention to portray tenants as wholly defeated. Rather, individual tenants often exhibited defeat and resistance simultaneously.
AB - Drawing from ethnographic observations and interview data gathered during 6 months working as a home caregiver at the Pinewood Apartments, a recovery-oriented supported housing community in Texas, I demonstrate how stigma and social defeat were moral and social processes that pervaded life for all involved, including service providers. Yet, because of the extreme power differentials that characterized tenant-staff relationships, the assault of stigma and social defeat was much more frequent, existentially intense, and morally and materially consequential for certain tenants, whose attempts at ideological resistance were delegitimized by service providers, including myself, who were backed by the authority of dominant psychiatric and moralistic discourses concerning the inherent irrationality and irresponsibility of people with severe mental illness. Nevertheless, due to the indeterminate and at times inharmonious nature of moral experience, it is not my intention to portray tenants as wholly defeated. Rather, individual tenants often exhibited defeat and resistance simultaneously.
KW - Moral experience
KW - Resistance
KW - Social defeat
KW - Stigma
KW - Supported housing
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U2 - 10.1007/s11013-012-9280-0
DO - 10.1007/s11013-012-9280-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 23054297
AN - SCOPUS:84869186983
SN - 0165-005X
VL - 36
SP - 660
EP - 678
JO - Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
JF - Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
IS - 4
ER -