scholarly journals Landed versus Landless: Stigma & Astigmatism towards the Subaltern in South Bay Suburbia in Los Angeles County

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Piscitello
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Culture Of Poverty ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Policy Solutions

The last few years have seen an increased interest in the casual theories surrounding houselessness. To date, no study has explicitly looked at the connection between public policy, social stigma, and the unhoused in Los Angeles County: three components of criminalization. In the first section, the concept of the (sub)culture of poverty is explored and lay bare. Next, a purview of socio-political theory regarding the inculcation of social norms onto the unhoused subaltern: then, biological determined racialism and classism are discredited. Last, a case study of the municipality of Torrance shows the prevalence of this inculcation of social stigma and the inaction in public policy. These ideological theories of biologically and culturally determined houselessness, devoid of any reality, inculcate the community, stymie public policy solutions, and exacerbate the unhouseds’ material conditions.

The Daily Offering Meal in the Ritual of Amenhotep I: An Instance of the Local Adaptation of Cult Liturgy

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-78
Author(s):  
J. Brett McClain ◽  
Kathlyn Cooney
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Local Adaptation ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
Divine Agency

AbstractThis article reexamines a limestone ostrakon of the Ramesside period, incompletely published by its previous editors, that was originally part of the Michaelides collection and is now owned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The ostrakon contains a small portion of a long text known as the "Ritual of Amenhotep I." The ostrakon lists a "menu" of items to be presented to Amen-Re and the deified Amenhotep I as part of the offering meal (dbh htp.w) during the daily offering ritual. This ritual meal awakens the god from a wounded state, empowering his body and thus his divine agency. Through repeated and patterned actions of offering accompanied by chanted speech imbued with symbolic meaning, the participants are given experience of hidden cosmological processes that lie beyond the boundaries of normal knowledge. The ritual meal can be described as a liminal rite of awakening and healing for the god and, by extension, for the entire community of which this god is a patron. We present this ritual performance as a case study examining how mythological narrative and state rituals can be adapted for local cult use.

Case study I: Fiscal sustainability in Los Angeles County

2012 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pisano ◽  
Richard F. Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Fiscal Sustainability

“Any Alternative Is Great If I’m Incarcerated”: A Case Study of Court-Ordered Community Service in Los Angeles County

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-53
Author(s):  
Melanie Sonsteng-Person ◽  
Lucero Herrera ◽  
Tia koonse ◽  
Noah D. Zatz
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Depth Interviews

California courts increasingly order community service for those convicted of nonviolent and minor misdemeanors or infractions, assigning unpaid work to be performed. While court-ordered community service has been used as an alternative to incarceration and the payment of fines, little is known about the monetary and personal costs for those completing it. A case study design is used to examine court-ordered community service performed in Southeast Los Angeles. Data were gathered from a quantitative dataset of 541 court files of those assigned to community service and 32 in-depth interviews with attorneys and court-ordered community service workers. While the quantitative data and Attorney interviews found that negative outcomes of community service can drive community service workers deeper into debt and result in new warrants that place defendants at risk for rearrest, individuals that completed community service appreciated the opportunity to pay off their criminal justice debts and stay out of jail.

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