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Thesis (M.S.)--Eastern Illinois University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Amidst the changing social and economic landscape of the city due to the Covid-19 global pandemic, Hamilton has seen a spike in the visible homeless population and the increasing presence of tent cities occupying public space, sparking controversy within the local community. Media portrayals of the tent occupancies have focused on homelessness through the use of deviance frames, focusing on crime, violence and danger, as well as negative personality traits that include weak moral laxity, overall laziness, and willful dependence on the state. This is to delegitimize the plight of this group, in favour of the City’s approach to criminalize, displace, disband and exclude. The media discourse negates the growing body of evidence that homelessness is a by-product of economic, political and global shifts towards neo-liberal restructuring. The study seeks to understand how and why the individual-blaming narrative maintains its dominance, to become accepted as truth and reproduced by the general public in the public sphere; particularly as it relates to public understandings of the causes of homelessness and who is responsible. This study finds that the dominant discourse is led by neoliberal ideology which underpins and permeates all facets of society. The study’s findings are threefold. 1. The elites who support a neo-liberal agenda have been effective in managing the opinions of the general public to accept their framing of the problem and also the solutions. This means that the general public continues to uphold a neo-liberal agenda even when it is against their best interests. 2. The discourse is maintained through deliberate and strategic positioning of one group against another. 3. Given continued public support neoliberalism will continue to dominate the future of economic, political and social policy, that impacts the welfare of the members of this community including the community’s most vulnerable homeless population. With that in mind, social work must navigate these tensions and conflicts within the oppressive systems, to both maintain them and work against them insofar as they are meeting the needs of the community. Social workers must manage dual tasks/roles of maintaining jobs, funding and supports, while finding ways to critique and resist these systems that maintain unequal power relations. / Thesis / Master of Social Work (MSW)

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Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Biological Sciences, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

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There is a growing body of research on homelessness, and collective action amongst the homeless. Tent cities are examples of self-help housing efforts. Tent cities are erected as shelter and make poverty visible in public domains. The form and interaction of tent cities are context specific. The perceptions of tent city participants in Canada remain partly understood by researchers. The aim of this thesis is to investigate activism and collective mobilization in one tent city – Cridge Park tent city - from the perspectives of tent city participants. I questioned what the experiences in the tent city meant for participants, their perceived public reaction to the tent city, and whether the research participants continue their activism beyond Cridge Park tent city. I present an empirically-grounded case study to uncover four participants’ perspectives of their involvement. I used qualitative research methods to access the perspectives of tent cities from four Cridge Park tent city participants. Cridge Park participants spoke of Cridge Park tent city as a “community” where they enjoyed freedom to negotiate their individual identity and where they found security and safety, which they lost when the tent city was closed. Including houseless persons in the decision-making process for services and policies that directly impact them is required to better meet their needs. Comparative research could investigate contextual differences and influences on the success or failure of tent cities as forms of social movement activities. / Graduate

Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2009/06/11). Includes bibliographical references.

Two approaches to the formulation of resource management policy sere considered, .The first was to construct a formal mathematical decision-making model of the system and to obtain optimal decisions analytically. The second was to use heuristics. The western tent caterpillar population system was chosen as the resource system on which to compare the approaches. various policies were tested on a computer simulation model of the system. It was found that a combination of the two approaches linear programming and heuristics) led to satisfactory harvesting policies. The results indicate that ignoring the basic biological attributes of the resource could lead to mismanagement, and possibly even destruction of the population. / Science, Faculty of / Mathematics, Department of / Graduate

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