Race, rhetoric, and participatory capture in U.S. housing: A critical discourse analysis of community building in HOPE VI
通过批判性话语分析美国联邦公共住房项目HOPE VI的关键文件，揭示参与性俘获现象，即参与式方法如何无意中进一步损害最脆弱参与者，并提出两种参与模式（缺陷型与治理型）及其种族化风险。
Participatory capture refers to the manner in which institutions and organizations engaged in participatory projects deploy participatory methods, however unintended, in ways that further endanger or disempower the most vulnerable participants. To further articulate this phenomenon, this article presents a critical discourse analysis of key documents associated with HOPE VI, a federal public housing program in the United States known for its emphasis on community participation amid antiblack power structures. The result of the analysis are two models of participatory engagement—deficit and governance—that facilitated HOPE VI’s participatory capture. Deficit models rely on participants who are discursively rendered as “inferior,” while governance models prioritize “token” participants at the expense of more robust participant feedback. Moreover, these models, in the context of the U.S., carry with them particularly racialized predicates that demonstrate potential perils of participation for low-income, marginalized communities. With implications for organizational communication, diversity initiatives, and community engagement, the analysis presented in this article offers researchers, organizers, and policymakers ways to continually evaluate the efficacy of participatory methods, especially in racialized or hierarchical contexts.