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"This is a terrific book. Lyon-Callo's descriptions shatter stereotypes about homeless people and focus instead on the dysfunction of the system that allegedly serves them." - Susan Greenbaum, University of South Florida
Author : Vincent Lyon-Callo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442600861
"This is a terrific book. Lyon-Callo's descriptions shatter stereotypes about homeless people and focus instead on the dysfunction of the system that allegedly serves them." - Susan Greenbaum, University of South Florida
Author : Vincent Lyon-Callo
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Equality
ISBN : 9781442603301
""This is a terrific book. Lyon-Callo's descriptions shatter stereotypes about homeless people and focus instead on the dysfunction of the system that allegedly serves them.""--Susan Greenbaum, University of South Florida.
Author : Faranak Miraftab
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134521103
Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project. Neoliberalism’s onslaught across the globe now shapes diverse inequalities -- poverty, segregation, racism, social exclusion, homelessness -- as city inhabitants feel the brunt of privatization, state re-organization, and punishing social policy. This book examines the relationship between persistent neoliberalism and the production and contestation of inequalities in cities across the world. Case studies of current city realities reveal a richly place-specific and generalizable neoliberal condition that further deepens the economic, social, and political relations that give rise to diverse inequalities. Diverse cases also show how people struggle against a neoliberal ethos and hence the open-endedness of futures in these cities.
Author : Loïc Wacquant
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2009-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822392259
The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral behaviorism. This paternalist program of penalization of poverty aims to curb the urban disorders wrought by economic deregulation and to impose precarious employment on the postindustrial proletariat. It also erects a garish theater of civic morality on whose stage political elites can orchestrate the public vituperation of deviant figures—the teenage “welfare mother,” the ghetto “street thug,” and the roaming “sex predator”—and close the legitimacy deficit they suffer when they discard the established government mission of social and economic protection. By bringing developments in welfare and criminal justice into a single analytic framework attentive to both the instrumental and communicative moments of public policy, Punishing the Poor shows that the prison is not a mere technical implement for law enforcement but a core political institution. And it reveals that the capitalist revolution from above called neoliberalism entails not the advent of “small government” but the building of an overgrown and intrusive penal state deeply injurious to the ideals of democratic citizenship. Visit the author’s website.
Author : Ian Cummins
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1447334809
A critical analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity on social work. Applying theory including those of Bourdieu and Wacquant to practice, it argues that social work should return to a focus on relational and community approaches.
Author : Benjamin I. Page
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226644820
At the same time, Page and Simmons show how even more could be - and should be - accomplished."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Rorden Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136974369
A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of global economic inequality and poverty in the world’s poorest countries. In 2007, the unsound lending practices that caused a collapse in the US housing market ushered in a broader economic crisis that reverberated throughout the global financial system. This economic shockwave had a global impact, triggering not just instability in other industrialized countries, but also in their developing world counterparts, also highlighting deficiencies in the current structures of global governance to protect the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged. This book offers answers to questions raised about the role of global governance in the attenuation and amelioration of world poverty and inequality. The contributors interrogate the role of systems of governance at a time of global economic crisis and continuing environmental degradation against a backdrop of acceleration in inequalities within and between communities and across the globe. Evaluating how existing systems can be reformed or redesigned to be more effective at addressing issues of poverty and inequality and providing a comprehensive discussion of a wide range of global governance initiatives this work will be essential reading for students and scholars of global governance, international relations and international organizations.
Author : Caroline Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This work provides an overall statement about the subject of human security in a global economy. It is organized to achieve two main aims: to embed the idea of human security in the framework of the evolving global economy; and to illustrate the challenges and opportunities to human security as we enter the 21st century by empirical studies.
Author : Joe Soss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226768767
This volume lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.
Author : Sammy Adelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2022-04
Category : Law and economic development
ISBN : 9780367528003
The book examines the well-established field of 'law and development' and asks whether the concept of development and discourses on law and development have outlived their usefulness. The contributors ask whether instead of these amorphous and contested concepts we should focus upon social injustices such as patriarchy, impoverishment, human rights violations, the exploitation of indigenous peoples, and global heating? If we abandoned the idea of development, would we end up adopting another, equally problematic term to replace a concept which, for all its flaws, serves as a commonly understood shorthand? The contributors analyse the links between conventional academic approaches to law and development, neoliberal governance and activism through historical and contemporary case studies. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of development, international law, international economic law, governance and politics and international relations.