Casey House: Interpreting the location of a Toronto AIDS hospice

“This place has given me a reason to care”: Understanding ‘managed alcohol programs’ as enabling places in Canada

“…Doing so invites us to consider how, as a place, the MAP is itself a 'geographical event' (see Chiotti and Joseph, 1995) achieved through the daily interactions and practices that compose the program. This type of spatiality has been well documented in the 'geographies of care' literature which has focused attention on the interactions, relations and practices of care that constitute the spatial experience of wellbeing (Conradson, 2005;Darling, 2011).…”

NIMBY localism and national inequitable exclusion alliances: The case of syringe exchange programs in the United States

“…Research by Low (2003) on gated communities, maintains that through physical exclusion residents make it more difficult for themselves to know or care about fellow citizens who are socially, economically, or racially different. Chiotti and Joseph (1995) outlined three broad perspectives based on the geographic and social theory literature (accessibility, structuralism, and humanism) to understand local attitudes regarding the location of an AIDS hospice facility. Their study found that the location of a hospice is part of the social and spatial process that "serves to reproduce the dominant form of social stratification (dictated by class and culture) and its attendant landscape."…”

Community capacity amongst people living with HIV/AIDS

“…The AIDS movement across North America was undeniably successful in raising awareness of HIV/ AIDS, reducing discrimination, pressuring governments to invest in AIDS resources and care, and promoting safe sex amongst gay men (Brown 1995;Chiottie and Joseph 1995). During the late 1980s, this movement was still largely a gay movement but as the 1990s progressed increasing numbers of heterosexual people began to be diagnosed with HIV.…”

“…Socially, culturally, and geographically HIV is more diffuse than ever before, causing social activism to be splintered in all number of directions and many of the unification campaigns, the awareness education, and even the calls for facilities are becoming outdated. Chiottie and Joseph (1995), for example, documented the socio-spatial processes which led to the establishment of a much-needed AIDS hospice in the commonly-recognized 'gay' district of Toronto in the 1980s (Varanesi 1986). The authors noted that social mobilization was integral to the establishment of Casey House, but the development of a future hospice in Toronto would be contingent on the support of the non-gay community and the ability of a facility to meet these newly diverse needs (Chiottie and Joseph 1995).…”