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The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless. Interviews and encounters with dozens of homeless people lead us into a world that most have never seen. We travel as an intimate observer into the places that many homeless frequent, including a community shelter, a day labor agency, a panhandling corner, a pawn shop, and a HUD housing office.Through these personal stories, we witness the obstacles that homeless people face, and the ingenuity it takes to negotiate life without a home. The Man in the Dog Park points to the ways that our own cultural assumptions and blind spots are complicit in US homelessness and contribute to the degree of suffering that homeless people face. At the same time, Small, Kordosky and Moore show us how our own sense of connection and compassion can bring us into touch with the actions that will lessen homelessness and bring greater humanity to the experience of those who remain homeless.The raw emotion of The Man in the Dog Park will forever change your appreciation for, and understanding of, the homeless life so many deal with outside of the limelight of contemporary society.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 avril 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501748806
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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The Man in the Dog Park

The Man in the Dog Park Coming Up Close toHomelessness

Cathy A. Small With Jason Kordosky and Ross Moore

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell Uni versity Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Permission to reprint the quotation from Thich Nhat Han fromThe Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra (20th anniversary edition), Parallax Press, United Buddhist Church 2009, ﬁrst published in 1988 that appears in chapter 2, has been granted by Parallax Press.

The authors express their deep thanks to Do Mi Stauber for her expert indexing of this book.

First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Small, Cathy, author. | Kordosky, Jason, author. | Moore, Ross (Homeless person), author. Title: The man in the dog park : coming up close to homelessness / Cathy A. Small ; with Jason Kordosky and Ross Moore. Description: Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2019038321 (print) | LCCN 2019038322 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501748783 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501748790 (epub) | ISBN 9781501748806 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Homeless persons—United States. | Homelessness— United States. Classiﬁcation: LCC HV4505 .S64 2020 (print) | LCC HV4505 (ebook) | DDC 362.5/920973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019038321 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019038322

Preface vii 1 The Beginning 1 2 The Road to Homelessness 7 3 The Stigma of Being Homeless 24 4 A Sheltered, Homeless Day 40 5 On the Street 60 6 Making Money 78 7 Navigating the Bureaucracy 104 8 Home at Last 116 9 Blind and Delusional 132 Notes 153 Index 177 About the Authors187

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n Buddhist thought, compassion (karuna) is described as the I quivering of the heart in relation to the suffering of others; it is accompanied by an impulse to relieve the suffering witnessed. Compassion is considered a natural human response, but it arises only when the walls of “otherness”—born of fear or disdain, greed or judgment—are not set in stone to block it. This is why there is something to be said about the purpose ful effort to step outside of your own reality. (Or is it actually to allow other realities, other lives, into your own?) When I have truly done this in my own life—moving into a village on a South Paciﬁc island, taking a year off as a professor to live as a freshman in an undergraduate college dorm, or ﬁnding an authentic friend ship with a homeless man—the results have been lifealtering and, often, lifegiving too. I think this is because such experiences upend our sense of what is true; they open us to the ﬁne details of realms that others inhabit, stretching the boundaries of our insight and also our compassion. This was not where I found myself more than a decade ago when I ﬁrst met Ross Moore, a homeless man in a dog park. I am very aware and not very proud of how I ﬁrst reacted, with profound

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distrust and fear. But I am just part of a culture. I would have to be a more remarkable person than I am to have acted otherwise. More than ten years later, it is easier to see who he is and what I am, too, because the two are related. Every other world I have entered has offered me a window into my own, at the same time as it immersed me in other lives that came to touch me deeply enough to alter my perspectives, sometimes even my path. I suppose this is why I, and Jason Kordosky, a coauthor, both became anthropologists, although our “anthropology” is as much a perspective of intimacy and nonjudgment as a profession. The fruits of this perspective have been profound and farreaching for us both. Like others who cross cultures or the boundaries of our upbringing, we ﬁnd in ourselves not only a greater responsiveness to the human condition but also the delight of living in a world less alien, less hostile, less unloving than it felt before. The cover image invokes “the man in the dog park” whom I ﬁrst saw as a homeless ﬁgure with a capital H and all the adjectives and sentiments, reactions and baggage, that come with that. So, let’s begin there, with our own stereotypes. It is where I began too.

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