Date of Award
5-12-2017
Degree Type
Capstone Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies (BA)
Department
Cultural Studies
First Advisor
Douglas Reichert Powell
Second Advisor
Robert E. Watkins
Third Advisor
Kenneth Daley
Abstract
Global public housing authorities in state versus market capitalism take different approaches to provide housing for multicultural demographics. This capstone project looks at that of New York City and Singapore as case studies of ideologies of welfare, multicultural national identity and public policies representative of their political economies. With special attention paid the spatial relations of ethnic enclaves in both urban environments, focus is placed on a social, lived experience shaped by both 'productivist' versus 'cynical' ideology and privatization versus state authoritarianism. Each political economic system of welfare reaches from larger concepts of national and global economy to the local level, where housing, neighborhoods and their discourses function. By situating the states and their respective public housing authorities within models of neoliberal and global development, we see how inaccessibility to affordable housing and neo-authoritarian policy maintains class power, property ownership and market expansion.
Recommended Citation
Alfino, Nicholas, "Bringing the State Home: Neoliberalism in Global Models of Public Housing" (2017). Cultural Studies Capstone Papers. 13.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cultural_studies/13
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