This thesis named The Inspiration of the Message of the Movement Arte Povera in Object Realisation or a New Art from Second-Hand is divided into a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical contains the beginning and evolvement of Arte Povera as an art group in the sixties which were affected by a political and social unstability in Italy. Individual artists of this movement, analysis of their works and collective exhibitions connected with Arte povera will be part of the research. Thesis also takes a closer look at czechoslovakian context of the sixties and seventies, its representative figures and their connection with Italian art scene. The practical part is inspired by a knowledge acquired from the works of the representatives of Arte povera and its part are downsized models of the final work and photos.

Submitted by Ricardo Cedraz Duque Moliterno (ricardo.moliterno@uefs.br) on 2017-07-11T21:49:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??oDaiane.pdf: 6296584 bytes, checksum: 70f9b21eaaffdd77a2ea4bb715ec1fd9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-11T21:49:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??oDaiane.pdf: 6296584 bytes, checksum: 70f9b21eaaffdd77a2ea4bb715ec1fd9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-30 / The aim of this work is to approach the institution process of Feirense school in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, centralizing school practices the black professor Geminiano Alves da Costa and its primary classes for children and adults in the city of Feira Santana from 1890 to 1920. the research has bases in the propositions of the social History of Education, highlighting the so-called school subjects and their daily experiences intra and extra school, for an understanding of the web of relationships that guided the experiences of that subject as a social phenomenon to be appropriate. The purpose of the work that follows is a directed approach to ownership of the black professor Geminiano Alves da Costa as a cultural interlocutor, from a survey of data on its roundness in feirenses spaces from that, the data supported the research as suggested Ione Sousa (2008), in looking perspective to the subject in a more detailed, more distant from large institutions in order to view the tiny experiences of literacy, literacy, their meanings for the subjects involved, and leaves aside the concern with great educational ideas and educational systems. From the experience of this subject we seek to embed Feirense educational scene in the early republican period, milestone that determined our cut and highlight the professional identity of these subjects students of schools, intertwined with the Geminiano Costa teacher. / O objetivo desse trabalho ? a abordagem do processo de institui??o de uma escolariza??o feirense no final do s?culo XIX e in?cio do s?culo XX, centralizando as pr?ticas escolares do Professor negro Geminiano Alves da Costa e de suas aulas prim?rias para crian?as e adultos na cidade de Feira de Santana de 1890 a 1920. A pesquisa tem bases nas proposi??es da Hist?ria Social da Educa??o, destacando os chamados sujeitos escolares e suas experi?ncias cotidianas intra e extra escola, para uma compreens?o das teias de rela??es que nortearam as viv?ncias do referido sujeito como fen?meno social a ser apropriado. A proposta do trabalho que segue ? uma abordagem encaminhada para apropria??o do Professor negro Geminiano Alves da Costa como um interlocutor cultural, a partir de um levantamento dos dados sobre sua circularidade nos espa?os feirenses, a partir disso, os dados subsidiaram a pesquisa como sugere Ione Sousa (2008), na perspectiva de olhar para os sujeitos de forma mais detida, mais distante das grandes institui??es no intuito de visualizar as min?sculas experi?ncias de letramento, de alfabetiza??o, seus significados para os sujeitos envolvidos, e deixa de lado a preocupa??o com as grandes ideias pedag?gicas e sistemas de ensino. A partir da viv?ncia desse sujeito buscamos evidenciar o cen?rio educacional feirense no in?cio do per?odo republicano, marco hist?rico que determinou nosso recorte, bem como destacar a identidade profissional desses sujeitos alunos das escolas, entrela?adas com a do professor Geminiano da Costa.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-05-12T18:22:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 WENDELL DA CUNHA LIMA.pdf: 1516274 bytes, checksum: 230856b7bdb5dab32181331f9b874fbf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-12T18:22:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WENDELL DA CUNHA LIMA.pdf: 1516274 bytes, checksum: 230856b7bdb5dab32181331f9b874fbf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-22 / The present study aimed to analyze the issue of discrimination of the a poor man in the Epistle of James, chapter 2,1-7, evidencing the meaning and strength of the antidiscriminatory message sent to the recipients. In the text, a poor man in dirty clothes and a man with a gold ring and fine clothes enter a religious environment. The poor man is discriminated against by their appearance and social condition, while the rich is treated with favoritism. The discrimination of the poor man was analyzed in two research perspectives, which are: 1) the social relations of the time; and, 2) the exegesis of the text, leading to the construction of a hermeneutic proposal for the narrative researched. It was concluded that the text of James has a strong socioeconomic conflict environment, where the use of symbolic social and religious expressions that demonstrate a message contextualized, intentional, clear and structured, in addition to denounce the discrimination of the poor man, inviting the readers for a change of posture and reality in favor of the discriminated in situation of poverty, on the basis of religious experience. / O presente estudo tem por objetivo analisar a questão da discriminação do pobre na epístola de Tiago, capítulo 2,1-7, evidenciando o significado e a força da mensagem antidiscriminatória ali remetido aos destinatários. No texto, um pobre com roupas sujas e um homem com anel de ouro e roupas finas ingressam em um ambiente religioso. O pobre é discriminado por sua aparência e condição social, enquanto o rico é tratado com favoritismo. A discriminação do pobre é analisada em duas perspectivas de investigação, quais sejam: 1) as relações sociais da época; e, 2) a exegese do texto, acarretando na construção de uma proposta hermenêutica para a narrativa pesquisada. Concluiu-se que o texto de Tiago detém um forte ambiente conflitual socioeconômico, onde se faz presente o uso de expressões simbólicas sociais e religiosas conexas que demonstram uma mensagem contextualizada, intencional, clara, estruturada, além de denunciar a discriminação do pobre, convidando os leitores para uma mudança de postura e realidade a favor do discriminado em situação de pobreza, tendo por base a experiência religiosa.

Destaca a reconstituição histórica e estética do processo da arte político-religiosa no Brasil de 1970 aos dias atuais. O período marca o nascimento, expansão, recuo e sobrevivência da Teologia da Libertação, e junto com o discurso que brota dessa reflexão, nasceu uma produção iconográfica própria e que escapa daqueles modelos consagrados pela teologia tradicional. O negro, o índio, o retirante nordestino, a mulher marginalizada, emprestam seus rostos à Virgem Maria e a Jesus Cristo, a fim de reafirmar o nascimento de um homem novo que surge dos escombros da colonização e da dependência política e econômica que marcaram a América Latina. As figuras, os desenhos, os cartazes, as expressões corporais, se transformaram em documentos que essa teologia produziu ao longo das décadas e que aqui serão abordados. De fato, o que nos interessa de perto, não é privilegiar questões de estilo, mas compreender, através de dados iconográficos, a latência de uma teologia exuberante e eficaz em sua intenção de se tornar a voz do pobre e marginalizado. A hipótese da pesquisa se constitui no problema referente ao processo de sacralização de iconografias, personagens profanos sob a égide da Teologia da Libertação no decorrer desse período no Brasil. A originalidade está em mostrar como esse ideário tomou forma através de representações pictóricas que facilitavam a sua compreensão e aceitação por parte do povo, especialmente o morador da periferia das grandes cidades ou do campo. Nesses lugares, graças a essa estratégia, conjugada a outras, como canções, danças e novos rituais, a Teologia da Libertação teve grande aceitação e força, semeando, através das CEBs (Comunidades Eclesiais de Base), a proposta da criação de uma nova sociedade, baseada em relações mais justas e fraternas, superando a exploração e a opressão dos poderosos a serviço do sistema capitalista. No entanto, a partir do final dos anos 1980, o rosto do sagrado estampado no rosto do pobre começa a esmaecer, sinal de um retorno conservador na Igreja. Apesar disso, esse rosto resiste e atravessa os tempos revelando a sobrevivência de um nicho mais que sagrado no profano. / It focuses the historical and aesthetical process of the politic-religious art in Brazil from 1970 to present time, a period which gives birth and at the same time, a kind of disaggregation to an iconographic model that sets apart the traditional ones, consecrated by the church. Black people, Indians, migrants living in poor areas, marginalized women, offer their faces to Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ with the proposal of reaffirming the birth of a new man that revives from the ashes of colonization ruins and also from the politic and economic dependence which was imprinted in Latin America. Pictures, drawings, posters, body language, become themselves, documents that Liberation Theology produced during these decades and will be studied in this research. As a matter of fact, what is mostly important to us to comprehend is not style matters but, above all, through iconographic issues, the latency of an exuberant and effective Theology in its intention to become the voice of the poor and the marginalized. The main hypothesis of this research constitutes in seeing the sacralization process on profane personages according to the Liberation Theology vision. The originality of this research is to show how an ideal took shape through pictorial representations that facilitate its comprehension and acceptation from poor people, especially those who live at the margins of the big cities. In those places, thanks to this strategy, but also with songs, dances and new rituals, Liberation Theology had large acceptation and gained strength, spreading its seeds through the Cebs (Base Communities), and with them, cherished the possibility of creating a new society based on fraternal and fair relations, overcoming exploration and oppression that come from powerful people who serve the capitalist system. However, from the end of the 1980s, the face of the sacred in the face of the poor starts fading as a sign of a conservative return inside the Catholic Church. In spite of this, that face endures and go across the times revealing the survival of a niche more than sacred in the profane.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-08-25T11:54:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Emerson Sbardelotti Tavares.pdf: 1297565 bytes, checksum: 4c823c420b77fbbcef816f2aebab5572 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-25T11:54:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Emerson Sbardelotti Tavares.pdf: 1297565 bytes, checksum: 4c823c420b77fbbcef816f2aebab5572 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / From the perspective of theology, from the fundamentals of liberation theology insights, we intend to analyze the poetry of Patativa do Assaré poet, the cut in his work suggests and points out the option for the poor, well before it is proclaimed and assumed in Medellin Conference (1968, Columbia) and then resumed without the same prophetic freedom in Puebla Conference (1979, Mexico), Santo Domingo (1992 Dominican Republic) and Aparecida (2007, Brazil), doing so, a link, a bridge between theology and literature. The purpose of the Option for the Poor in Poetry Patativa do Assaré is to show how the option for the poor, biblical heritage, Vatican II heritage, with respect to assumptions and expectations than would be worked out and discussed in the Episcopal Conferences Latin American and Caribbean would be a poetic instrument of liberation in the voice and words of Patativa do Assaré. The main hypothesis is to show that Patativa do Assaré, by divine inspiration, becomes a sacred agent, becomes a representative of the Option for the Poor as it makes her poetry a prophecy where the watchwords are: truth, justice, freedom, brotherhood, equality and land reform. All current, useful and necessary. In Patativa do Assaré, the Option for the Poor that made by his poetry, is the Word of God touching humanity is doing in us, poetry. The option for the poor, assumed by the poet, was evident in all his books and in interviews he gave throughout his life. The results obtained from this research was to find out that there is a vast territory to be explored this relationship between theology and literature, as yet, everything is new and small steps are being taken in this direction. It was concluded that the Option for the Poor is useful, it is necessary, is current and should be lived, assuming all the consequences even martyrdom, as Patativa do Assaré, despite not being the poet a theologian, has always sought to be consistent with their choices; among them he never gave up the truth, justice, freedom and living among the people / Sob a ótica da Teologia, a partir das intuições fundantes da Teologia da Libertação, pretende-se analisar a poesia do poeta Patativa do Assaré, no recorte em que sua obra sugere e aponta a Opção pelos Pobres, bem antes desta ser proclamada e assumida na Conferência de Medellín (1968, Colômbia) e depois reassumida sem a mesma liberdade profética nas Conferências de Puebla (1979, México), Santo Domingo (1992, República Dominicana) e Aparecida (2007, Brasil), fazendo portanto, uma ligação, uma ponte entre Teologia e Literatura. O objetivo de A Opção pelos Pobres na Poesia de Patativa do Assaré é mostrar como a Opção pelos Pobres, herança bíblica, herança do Vaticano II, no que tange aos pressupostos e perspectivas do que seria trabalhado e discutido nas Conferências Episcopais Latino-Americanas e Caribenhas viria a ser um instrumento poético de libertação na voz e nas palavras de Patativa do Assaré. A principal hipótese é mostrar que Patativa do Assaré, por inspiração divina, se torna um agente do sagrado, se torna um representante da Opção pelos Pobres, pois faz de sua poesia uma profecia onde as palavras de ordem são: verdade, justiça, liberdade, fraternidade, igualdade e reforma agrária. Todas atuais, uteis e necessárias. Em Patativa do Assaré, na Opção pelos Pobres que fez através da sua poesia, é o Verbo de Deus tocando a humanidade, se fazendo em nós, poesia. A Opção pelos Pobres, assumida pelo poeta, ficou evidente em todos os seus livros e nas entrevistas que deu ao longo de sua vida. O resultado obtido com esta pesquisa foi descobrir que há um território imenso a ser desbravado nesta relação entre Teologia e Literatura, pois ainda, tudo é novidade e pequenos passos estão sendo dados nesta direção. Conclui-se que a Opção pelos Pobres é útil, é necessária, é atual e deve ser vivida, assumindo todas as consequências até o martírio, pois Patativa do Assaré, mesmo não sendo o poeta um teólogo, procurou ser sempre coerente com suas escolhas; dentre elas nunca abriu mão da verdade, da justiça, da liberdade e de viver no meio do povo

Cette recherche, consacrée aux quartiers difficiles de la ville de Santiago du Chili, a pour objet d’étudier la vision que des jeunes habitants élaborent de leur espace public. L’étude a nécessité une adaptation psychosociale du concept d’espace public et l’élaboration d’un dispositif de recherche permettant de l’appréhender empiriquement. La recherche avait pour but d’étudier le rôle de la participation, ou de la non participation, aux associations de quartier (culturelles, éducatives, sportives, musicales, religieuses) sur la manière d’envisager l’espace public et se représenter autrui et les relations entre les habitants. Cinq quartiers déshérités de la ville de Santiago du Chili, distincts quant à leur histoire, ont constitué notre terrain d’étude et 45 jeunes habitants de ces quartiers ont été interviewés. La méthodologie combine l’approche qualitative et quantitative. Le corpus des entretiens a été analysé avec le logiciel Alceste. La participation aux associations s’avère être une variable importante dans la manière d’envisager la vie des quartiers et le rôle de différentes institutions qui y interviennent. Les représentations se distinguent selon le type des associations auxquelles ces jeunes prennent part. Cette recherche fournit des éléments pour réfléchir sur la pertinence des interventions en matière de sécurité publique, dont ces quartiers font l’objet de la part des autorités et les potentialités de ces jeunes habitants à modeler les relations quotidiennes et envisager leur avenir. Loin de se limiter à la réalité chilienne, ces questions concernent les phénomènes urbains dans une perspective internationale et constituent des enjeux dans les sociétés contemporaines. / The main purpose of this research, dedicated to the poor areas of the city of Santiago, Chile, is to understand the representation that young people develop of their public space. A psychosocial adaptation of the concept of public space and the construction of an empirical research device were needed. The approach is based on the study of concrete aspects of living in neighbourhoods with a special focus on identity and relational dimensions of the subject.Five poor neighbourhoods of Santiago city, distinct in their history, were chosen as fields of study and 45 young people living in these districts were interviewed. The main independent variable in this analysis was to distinguish whether young people were members of a neighbourhood association (and the kind of association: cultural, educational, sporting, musical, or religious) or whether they did not take part in any association.The methodology combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Semi-structured interviews have two parts: an oral description of the neighbourhoods, activities and social relationships with the illustration of remarks through the drawing of a socio-spatial map. In the second part, three scenarios evoking the difficulties of daily life were presented and the young people were asked to think of solutions to these difficulties. The corpus of interviews was analysed using the software Alceste. We were able to study their representations of others, social exchanges and various institutions involved in the life of the districts.The results have shown significant differences in the representations that these young people develop of neighbourhood life, their ability to have an impact on it and their perception of the future, according to the association activities they participate in.This research provides elements to reflect on the relevance of interventions in public safety, the potential of these young people to shape their everyday relationships and the representation of their living places oriented towards the future. Far from being limited to the Chilean reality, these issues concern all the major cities of the world and are issues specific to contemporary society.

Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: p. 51-52. / M.Arch.A.S.

This ethnographic study explores diverse ways in which sexuality and social hierarchies and inequalities interact in the lives of low-income youth who were trained as peer-educators and sexual health and rights advocates in Ayacucho, Peru. It examines three central questions: 1) How are meanings about sexuality related to social hierarchies and social prestige among these youth? 2) How do quotidian manifestations of social inequity shape vulnerability of youth to sexual abuse and sexual risks, and their sexual agency to face these situations? and 3) What are the possibilities and limitations of existent sexual rights educational programs to diminish sexual vulnerability of youth facing diverse forms of inequality, such as economic, gender, ethnic and inter-generational disparities? I analyze what may be termed as the political economy of sexual vulnerability among low-income youth, and show the concrete ways in which it operates in their everyday life. Likewise, this research studies sexuality as a domain of reproduction, resignification and critique of social inequality and social hierarchies. The context is an Andean city, which in recent decades has experienced incomplete processes of democratization, and also a greater penetration of consumerism and transnational ideas and images. This study also reveals cultural logics of youth about sexual risks and complex dimensions of their sexual and gender agency. In terms of policies and programs, this research offers evidence and reflections about some challenges and limitations of a participatory sexual rights project within a context of poverty and social inequalities in urban low-income areas of Peru.

Despite the attention given to the role of the housing market in the constitution and duration of low-income minority neighborhoods in American cities, little is known about the inner-workings of the housing market within these neighborhoods. The kind of housing professionals that populate this local economic world, the strategies they develop, both orthodox and unorthodox, especially towards tenants, are deemed of little interest by the dominant perspectives in the field, Human Ecology and Political Economy. The shared intellectual movement behind these two widely different theoretical perspectives is to understand how the city is mapped, how people and activities come to be distributed in space across the city. In this agenda, low-income minority areas are seen as a residual geographical entity, something whose existence is the effect of external forces: real estate brokers who steer households according to race, white ethnic immigrants who flee to the suburbs, white middle-class youths who gentrify the inner-city, downtown elites who disinvest from low-income minority neighborhoods. To focus on local actors of the housing market who operate within low-income minority neighborhoods requires a shift away from the traditional question of spatial distribution. Instead of framing the housing market as a spatial mechanism, this research looks at the housing market as a set of varied economic circuits that plug into a local social life with the goal of extracting money out of a local population's housing needs. In this view, the empirical questions are the variety of economic circuits in which the poor and near-poor minorities are embedded; the economic roles that define these various circuits; the strategies that are adequate, both for housing actors and for the local population; the opportunities for upward mobility and the risks of downward mobility they offer; the experience of hardship that emerges from these circuits. In brief, the key issue is how the different modes of organization of a local housing field (a term more open to variations than "market") participate to the local process of economic differentiation in low-income minority neighborhoods. The process under study can be conceived as the mutual shaping between two linked ecologies (Abbott 2005). On one hand, there are small and independent local housing professionals. For these actors, the issue is: how can they meet the specific challenges and seize the specific profits that stem from the economic project of making money out of the housing needs of poor and near-poor minorities? On the other hand, there is the ecology of the local population living in these neighborhoods. This population is internally differentiated by class and by a myriad of support networks, which may include formal organizations, such as lawyers, community based organizations, religious organizations, or legal aid societies. For this population, the key question is: how to benefit best from the housing field they face with the variety of resources at their hands? The interactions of these two ecologies with the larger regulatory framework shape the economic circuits that make up the housing field in low-income minority neighborhoods. The outcome of such interactive process can be approached from the inside - i.e. the inner-workings of the economic circuits as seen by those who derive money from them. It can also be seen from the outside - i.e. the economic structures that people living in these communities face. For almost three years (2009-2012), I was embedded into an informal group of housing actors operating in central Brooklyn and central Harlem, NY. This group is made of small landlords, larger real estate investors, independent real estate brokers, several housing lawyers and a criminal lawyer, construction workers and handymen, local community leaders, and, more marginally, New York City agents and bureaucrats and tenants. My research is an ethnographic study of this group, which I call "Larry's clique". It yielded three main results. First, the local housing field in low-income minority neighborhoods is segmented between the "housing market" and the "housing game". In the "housing market" economic dynamics fall within the boundary of institutional regulations. Roles and strategies are encapsulated in common terms like "tenant", "landlord", "housing lawyer", "real estate broker" etc. Next to this institutionalized housing market, exists a predatory segment, which, following the people I have observed, I call the "housing game". In this second segment, institutionally-proscribed modes of making money are common, formal economic roles are transformed and new categories emerge such as "the professional tenant", "the foolish landlord", "the predatory machine", "the tenant who plays the game right"; new boundaries between fair and unfair business practices are drawn; and the texture of ordinary economic transactions is not one of middle-class doux-commerce, but one of incivility and verbal violence. Second, the housing game sheds a new light on the local economic life in which poor and near-poor minorities are embedded. I have observed the formation of patrons-clients ties between local housing actors of the "game" and the local population. Patron-clients ties are a classic structure in the social scientific literature. However, it is a vocabulary that has disappeared from the scholarship on the contemporary forms of American poverty and near-poverty. My research brings back this vocabulary. Associated to this form of relation is a particular experience of hardship. The poor and near-poor who come in contact with the housing game experience the world as full of concealed riches that can be unlocked through personal yet distrustful relations of dependency. In this worldview, people shift quickly from being friend to being foe, double-agents are constant worries, simple questions as who works for whom receive unstable answers, and hubristic anger and joy accompany expectations of high rewards, of rainfalls of money, and feelings of being robbed. In this deeply personalistic worldview, something key is obliterated from the eyes of the people: it is the marginality of most of the actors I have observed from larger formal organizations and bureaucracies that chiefly affect the distribution of economic rewards in the housing market. Third, the housing game is not a well-ordered underworld in the tradition of the Chicago School. It is not a sub economic system with its own parallel culture and practices. The real mode of existence of this economic world has much less substance. Economic actors in the housing game are haunted by feelings of inefficacy and amateurism. Beyond the scams, the predatory attempts, the shouts and the insults in Housing Court, beyond the moralizing discourses about who "abuses the system" and who deserves to be "fucked", beyond all this gesticulation, people of the game have the nagging feeling of being stalled. The economic life of the housing game fights by all means necessary the actors' creeping experience of passivity, helplessness, and low self-efficacy - but it is not always successful. The vocabulary of the "game" indicates not only the distance with the institutionalized housing market, but also the dramaturgy of this economic world, the layers of meaning and symbolic practices that cover up, but only in part, the fact that the game does not fully work, does not bring the expected rewards. The concealed riches of the world remain out of reach. The intellectual posture behind this research is the reconstruction of economic categories through intimate ethnographic observations. Such reconstruction requires an epoch (i.e. a suspension) of the common modes of description of economic life inherited from both economics and legal studies and from the regulatory framework that supervises the "market". This research is the occasion, then, to interrogate the place of rich narratives and close descriptions in the study of economic life.

This dissertation is the culmination of over two years of fieldwork at a residence for indigent elderly and disabled people situated in the neighborhood of Park Slope in the borough of Brooklyn, New York. The research methodology relied heavily on participant observation, as well as a semi-structured formal interview on a select group of informants, to gain a local perspective on the direct and indirect social effects of institutional policies towards indigent elder populations receiving funding from federal and state level agencies. Using theoretical models from medical and psychological anthropology on cultural studies of death, grieving, and mourning, this analysis focuses on entitlement/benefit policies and their social impact on the organizational structure at a geriatric residential complex. Especially salient were the notions of self-identity and the coping strategies used by the elderly poor and the people who are involved in their care to make do with their low social and economic positioning. At this site, in their everyday routines, older adults faced a myriad of challenges imposed by the lack of clarity and consistent change surrounding implementation of these benefits by various outside institutions. In this diverse setting, social work staff engaged in care-taking practices in the hope of addressing inequalities experienced by the tenant population. Subsequently, social workers became key participants in maintaining the measurements of equality used to determine eligibility for such resources. This was due in part to their gatekeeper status within the privately funded charity-based organization for the diverse sets of residents supported by a mix of private and public entities using federal and state funds. Ultimately, the regulations designed to alleviate inequality created boundaries among tenants and were a source of tension embroiled in larger issues surrounding ethnic, linguistic, and social difference. By exploring the ways in which professional experts with authoritative-knowledge guided and interacted with the elderly-poor at one independent living facility, the research addresses the growing complexity shadowing affordable housing for older adults in the United States as the populace at large continues to diversify. In addressing how these initiatives were enacted and allocated under these conditions, one of the main aims of this research was to reveal how conflicts and struggles emanating from them were managed.