Reframing the American Dream

Auteur

Shawn Chandler Bingham is Director of the University Honors Program and Associate Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University. He is interested in the intersections of cultures that are seemingly disparate. He is author of Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), co-author of Seriously Funny: Disability and the Paradoxical Power of Humor (Lynn Rienner, 2016), co-editor of The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk (UNC Press, 2017), and editor of The Art of Social Critique: Painting Mirrors of Social Life (Lexington Books, 2012).

Michaela Emily Howells is an anthropologist specializing in transdisciplinary approaches to health disparities. She is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and has conducted research in Africa, Asia, the South Pacific, and North and Central America. Her research focuses on the impact of stigma and racism on global health. She is currently investigating the role of climate disasters on pregnant individuals and their developing offspring. This work is collaborative and elevates the work of community and regional partners to address pressing societal health and equity issues.

Texte du rabat

Tiny houses are as much about structure, culture, and powerful institutions as they are about individual choice and freedom. This text walks the line between the individual and larger systems. It discusses how the tiny home community contains both radical and conventional cultural elements, lending it a unique cultural footprint.