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This thesis investigates how homeless men and women who use one of only six human services campuses (hscs) in the nation negotiate the stigmatization they may feel as homeless people living in Phoenix, Arizona. An hsc centralizes services to one area of the city to decrease the run around of scattered-site service delivery. It also creates a legitimized space for the homeless in the city. A place for the homeless can be a rarity in cities like Phoenix that have a history of implementing revanchist policies and neo-liberal land use planning, most notably found in its downtown revitalization efforts. During Phoenix's development as a major metropolitan area, the homeless population emerged and lived a life on the margins until the 2005 creation of the Human Services Campus. This research unearths the experiences of homeless men and women who use the HSC today. I used qualitative methods, including document review, 14 in-depth interviews with homeless men and women, 7 interviews with service providers, informal conversations with additional homeless clients, and 14 months of field observations at the HSC to collect the data presented in this thesis. The results of this research illustrate reasons why the homeless clients interviewed were sensitive to the stigmatization of their social status, and how they managed their stigmatization through relationships with homeless peers and staff on the HSC. The presence of an action plan to exit homelessness was critical to the nature of these relationships for clients, because it influenced how clients perceived their own stigmatization as a homeless person.
ContributorsDe La Rosa Aceves, Aurelia Marie (Author) / Bolin, Bob (Thesis advisor) / Menjivar, Cecilia (Committee member) / Yabiku, Scott (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2011
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Students from Student Health Outreach for Wellness (SHOW) partnered with Justa Center in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona to interview 10 elders (age 55+) experiencing homelessness. The approach used was narrative medicine with purposes of 1) demonstrate empathy and awareness for the needs of individuals experiencing homelessness, 2) decrease negative stigmatization surrounding these individuals, and 3) use narrative medicine to promote healing of their traumas. The project's results include 30 social media posts for Instagram and Facebook and an approximately 50 minute film featuring all 10 interviews.
ContributorsHernandez, Alejandro (Author) / Vega, Emilia (Co-author) / Harrell, Liz (Thesis director) / Felix, Kaitlyn (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor) / College of Health Solutions (Contributor)
Created2022-05
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Students from Student Health Outreach for Wellness (SHOW) partnered with Justa Center in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona to interview 10 elders (age 55+) experiencing homelessness. The approach used was narrative medicine with purposes of 1) demonstrate empathy and awareness for the needs of individuals experiencing homelessness, 2) decrease negative stigmatization surrounding these individuals, and 3) use narrative medicine to promote healing of their traumas. The project results include 30 social media posts for Instagram and Facebook and an approximately 50 minute film featuring all 10 interviews.
ContributorsVega, Emilia (Author) / Hernandez, Alex (Co-author) / Harrell, Liz (Thesis director) / Felix, Kaitlyn (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / College of Health Solutions (Contributor)
Created2022-05
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Southern United States English (SUSE) is North America’s most stigmatizedregionalized dialect, leading to generational decline and underrepresentation from
characters in primetime television. This study explores the representation of SUSE
features by 80 local news broadcasters in eight Southern affiliates, all outside major
metropolises. This sociophonetic study surveys the PIN-PEN merger and Stages I and II
of the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS) — /aɪ/ glide weakening and /e/-/ɛ/ proximity. The PIN-PEN merger was found to be widespread among broadcasters, with
49/80 (61%) having a PIN-PEN Pillai score less than 0.3, considered “merged”. /aɪ/ glide
weakening was subtly present, despite being a marked SUSE feature: /aɪ/ was
overwhelmingly diphthongal, but the median and Q3 variants (measured in Euclidean
distance from 20% to 80% duration) ended in the lower half of the vowel space, showing
a general lack of glide raising. Lastly, /e/-/ɛ/ proximity had marginal representation: Only
11/80 (14%) broadcasters had a non-sonorant /e/-/ɛ/ Pillai score less than 0.45, and the
median Pillai score was 0.664, establishing that an advanced SVS is not typical. The best predictors for the PIN-PEN merger were attending a Southern college,
being African American, and being male — all factors of socialization. Contrastingly, the
(mutually exclusive) best predictors of /aɪ/ glide weakening were more products of
stylization — occupational role and the subregion that hired the broadcaster (whether the
audience was a ‘Deep South’ market). For /e/-/ɛ/ proximity, the interaction of gender and
Southern college attendance was statistically significant, as only men with Southern
college backgrounds generally had this apparently stigmatized feature. Age was not found to be significant for any feature, subverting expectations that
younger speakers keep SUSE at ‘arm’s length’. TV market size was impactful for each
feature but repeatedly (narrowly) missed the p=0.05 threshold for statistical significance.
Sports anchors led in SUSE forms for each feature, showing SUSE as an asset;
investigative reporters, however, had the least SUSE /aɪ/ and /e/-/ɛ/ variants. Gender had
strong explanatory power for each feature, inferring that men tended to ‘lean in’ to
SUSE’s positive solidarity traits, but women tended to incorporate SUSE less often due
to its negative competency traits.
ContributorsDekker, Ryan Michael (Author) / Adams, Karen (Thesis advisor) / Prior, Matthew (Committee member) / Pruitt, Kathryn (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2024