{"product_id":"trailer-park-america-reimagining-working-class-communities-paperback-softback-9781978829466","title":"Trailer Park America; Reimagining Working-Class Communities (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978829466","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTrailer Park America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReimagining Working-Class Communities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeontina Hormel (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978829466\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages, 22 color and 9 B-W figures\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Trailer Park America\u003c\/i\u003e explores three critical crises of our day – economic inequality, ecological disaster, and housing insecurity – through deeply-engaged, collaborative research with impacted communities in one of our nation’s most overlooked, and most important, sources of affordable housing.\" - Esther Sullivan (author of Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place) “\u003ci\u003eTrailer Park America \u003c\/i\u003eis exceptionally well written, in clear, direct language, making vivid the real, human dramas at the heart of broad social systems, relationships and institutions. One of the best books I have read in decades.” - Elaine Coburn (editor of More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom) “Immersing herself in Syringa, Idaho, for more than five years, Leontina Hormel is clearly passionate about both the issue of housing and this community itself. \u003ci\u003eTrailer Park America\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome contribution to the existing literature on low-income housing and mobile home residents in particular.” - Daisy Rooks (University of Montana)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn rural northern Idaho in the winter of 2013-2014, Syringa Mobile Home Park’s water system was contaminated by sewage, resulting in residents’ water being shut off for 93 days. By summer 2018 Syringa had closed, forcing residents to relocate or face homelessness. \u003ci\u003eTrailer Park America\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles how residents dealt with regulatory agencies, frequent boil order notices, threats of closure, and class-based social stigma over this period. Despite all this, what was seen as a dysfunctional, ‘disorderly’ community by outsiders was instead a refuge where veterans, women heads of households, and people with disabilities or substance use disorders were supported and understood. The embattled Syringa community also organized to defend the rights and dignity of residents and served as a site for negotiating with local government, culminating in a class-action lawsuit that reached the federal level. The experiences Syringa residents faced in this conservative, predominately white region of the United States are emblematic of the growing national and global crisis in affordable housing and home ownership, with declining work conditions and incomes for the working-class.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e FOREWORD BY DAWN TACHELL\u003cbr\u003e CHRONOLOGY \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e Crisis  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1 WHO BELONGS ON THE PALOUSE? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2 INVENTING WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITIES \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3 MAKING A FUNCTIONAL COMMUNITY AMID DISORDER \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4 VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE\u003cbr\u003e Flushing the Public Good \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5 RED TAGS\u003cbr\u003e The Letter of the Law Kills \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6 SYRINGA REFUGEES \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 7 DEATH OF A COMMUNITY \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 8 TRAILER PARK POLITICS\u003cbr\u003e Recognizing Working-Class People’s Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e and Mobilization \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 9 TRAILER PARK AMERICA\u003cbr\u003e Syringa Residents’ Lessons to the Public \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e APPENDIX: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH\u003cbr\u003e ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003cbr\u003e NOTES\u003cbr\u003e REFERENCES\u003cbr\u003e INDEX \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640472138008,"sku":"9781978829466","price":28.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/trailer-park-america-reimagining-working-class-communities-paperback-softback-9781978829466","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}