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Experiments in Vulnerability: Sociability and Care in Chicago's Redeveloping Public Housing
Author(s) -
FENNELL CATHERINE
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1111/ciso.12043
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , sociology , welfare , public housing , public relations , business , economic growth , political science , economics , law , computer security , computer science
This essay examines tensions emerging around public spaces in a mixed‐income development built to replace a distressed public housing project on Chicago's West Side. It argues that the disorienting experiences of moving through these spaces prodded new and long‐term residents of the area to examine the practices of sociability they subscribed to. Specifically, it prodded them to examine what it would take to become more or less vulnerable to each other, and in the process, better able to care for themselves and those in their immediate vicinity. I show that scholarly attention to the reconfiguration of sociability in such places helps us better understand post‐Welfare social collectivities and the conditions of belonging to them.