Let Bodegas Be Bodegas

Dory Thrasher — 2016-09-20T05:00:00Z

A new rule proposed by the US Department of Agriculture would impose new stocking rules on food stores that accept SNAP benefits, requiring them to carry more perishable and healthy food. This requirement would primarily affect small convenience stores. Dory Thrasher argues that this intervention, despite its beneficent intentions, is unlikely to transform the nutrition environment for low-income households.
In February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed a rule

- Debates / food, food deserts, bodegas, nutrition policy, SNAP, US Department of Agriculture, nutrition

The Intimate Politics of Public Housing's Demise

Dory Thrasher — 2016-04-12T05:00:00Z

Many ethnographies have documented the physical and institutional fragility of America's public housing. Writing in a different idiom, anthropologist Catherine Fennell opens a line of inquiry into how encounters with physical things—buildings and building systems—forge bonds of sympathy between and among housing residents, bureaucrats, and members of the broader public. Registering and interpreting these sympathetic encounters, Fennell's study of Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, the “last project

- Reviews / Chicago, social housing, public housing, welfare state, public-housing redevelopment

Metropolitics

Let Bodegas Be Bodegas

The Intimate Politics of Public Housing's Demise