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4 juin 2012
Présentation de Matthew Desmond, maître de conférences à l’Université de Harvard :
«Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty »
Discutant : Loïc Wacquant Modératrice : Sylvie Tissot
Résumé :
A mixed methods endeavor, this study explores the prevalence and ramifications of eviction in the lives of the urban poor. A quantitative analysis of administrative and survey data finds that eviction is commonplace in inner-city black neighborhoods and that women from those neighborhoods are evicted at significantly higher rates than men. A qualitative analysis of ethnographic data based on fieldwork among evicted tenants and their landlords reveals multiple mechanisms propelling this discrepancy. Just as incarceration has become typical in the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction has become typical in the lives of women from these neighborhoods. Typical yet damaging: by exacerbating these women’s material hardship, increasing their rate of residential mobility, decreasing their chances of securing decent and affordable housing, and in many cases resulting in prolonged periods of homelessness, eviction contributes to their economic vulnerability.
2 D’autres publications :
Desmond Matthew, “Disposable Ties and the Urban Poor”, American Journal of Sociology, 117 (2012): 1295-1335.
Desmond, Matthew, and Mustafa Emirbayer˛ “To Imagine and Pursue Racial Justice”, Race, Ethnicity and Education, 15 (2012): 259-289.
Desmond Matthew, “Making Firefighters Deployable”, Qualitative Sociology, 34 (2011): 59-77.
Turley, Ruth N. López, and Matthew Desmond, “Contributions to College Costs by Married, Divorced, and Remarried Parents”, Journal of Family Issues, 32 (2011): 767-790.
Martin, John Levi, and Matthew Desmond, “Political Position and Social Knowledge”, Sociological Forum, 25 (2010): 1-26.
Desmond Matthew, “Des morts incompétents”, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 165 (2006): 8-27.
Bibliographie complète à l’adresse suivante :
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/desmond/index.html
Discutant : Loïc Wacquant, professeur de sociologie à l’Université de Berkeley et chercheur au
CESSP, est l’auteur de nombreux livres et articles dont Ghetto, banlieues, État (2006), Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2009) et Les Deux visages du ghetto (à paraître en 2012).
Bibliographie complète à l’adresse suivante : http://loicwacquant.net/
Modératrice : Sylvie Tissot, professeure de science politique à l’Université de Paris VIII et
chercheure au CRESPPA (Equipe CSU), est notamment l’auteur de L’Etat et les quartiers. Genèses d’une catégorie de l’intervention publique (2007) et de De bons voisins. Enquête dans un quartier de la bourgeoisie progressiste (2011).
Bibliographie complète à l’adresse suivante : http://www.csu.cnrs.fr/
