Poverty & Homelessness

Social protection is fast becoming an important theme in development policy. This book examines the political processes shaping social protection policies; compares the key conceptual frameworks available for analyzing social protection; and provides a...

Nine million people in the United States live in rural poverty. This large segment of the population has generally been overlooked even as considerable attention, and social conscience, is directed to the alleviation of urban poverty. This timely, needed...

Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. This international, multi-disciplinary group of scholars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633889767Author Maria FoscarinisFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus Books

At a time of growing wealth and income inequality in the United States during recent decades, Class and Inequality in the United States examines the nature and sources of social inequality based on class, race, and gender relations throughout the course...

A profound exploration into the spiritual beliefs and practices of Seattle's unhoused youth Soul Woundedness is an intimate, piercing book about everyday life for young adults living on the streets of Seattle. Based on over five years of research and as...

Collected in this volume are the best articles and symposia from Poverty & Race, the bimonthly newsletter journal of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), a Washington, DC-based national public interest organization founded in 1990. Poverty...

To understand contemporary ageing it is necessary to recognise its diversity. Drawing on an extraordinary range of theory, original research and empirical sources, this book assesses the stereotyped conceptions of ageing, and offers a critical and...

Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact...

The essays in this series offer fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality. The content is comprised of highly topical subject matter with key researchers in the field contributing.About the...

The papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion represent the most current research on poverty, deprivation, and income mobility. They illustrate the multidimensionality of poverty that is difficult to capture in any one measure...

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United StatesTent City 3 provides Seattle's unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 it became one of the first organized, peer-operated tent encampments...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. During the cost-of-living crisis, schools and nurseries have had to step beyond their educational purpose to offer free food to families through food banks. This book explores how these food...

Can entrepreneurship serve as a pathway out of poverty? Are the poor able to create ventures that can improve their economic circumstances and enhance their lives? Poverty, Disadvantage and the Promise of Enterprise: A Capabilities Perspective argue that...

Addressing a neglected area in academic research, media coverage and public understanding, this book takes a critical political economy approach to understanding food insecurity in Canada and the UK. It examines how current economic and political...

The private rental housing market plays an important and growing role in the advanced economies. Providing accommodation for a wider range of households than before the global financial crisis, rental housing is also a key asset class for private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933782034Author David H. LevinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint Berkshire Publishing GroupPublisher Berkshire Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 633g

Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power. The home as an auratic space is dead, and this alienation has hindered our...

This book relates the success of a seemingly impossible challenge: to have a group of academics and people living in persistent poverty conduct research together. What conditions can the knowledge drawn from poverty cross with academic rigor? What type...

The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media, and Politics discusses the influence of the increasing use of digital technologies on media and political responses to poverty in the United Kingdom and Canada. Considering poverty politics at symbolic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464812323Author World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817356187Author Irene GlasserFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams)...

One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of humanity" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life." Feldman argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060954864Author Loretta Schwartz-NobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Although practitioners do not often identify an explicit focus on social welfare policy, the analysis (what it is) and evaluation (what it does) of policy is basic to social work practice. This unique pocket guide presents a case study on one of the most...

On 24 November 1989 the Canadian House of Commons unanimously passed an all-party resolution to eliminate poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000. Yet in 2005 a report by UNICEF placed Canada nineteenth in a ranking of the relative poverty of...

Based on research that was awarded the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306903540Author David AmbrozFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Legacy LitPublisher Legacy LitWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 33mm

In 2015 many camps were opened to accommodate newly arriving migrants in Berlin. Christian Sowa studies this form of accommodation. Moving beyond an exclusive focus on borders and migration, he argues that camp accommodation must be thought of and...

In rural northern Idaho in the winter of 2013-2014, Syringa Mobile Home Park's water system was contaminated by sewage, resulting in residents' water being shut off for 93 days. By summer 2018 Syringa had closed, forcing residents to relocate or face...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622577026Author James E PilesFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 342g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617759352Author Joshua CoombesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Akashic BooksPublisher Akashic BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594546068Author Cirilo Humberto Garcia CadenaFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers...

The volume covers issues related to poverty, inequality, inclusiveness development, role of institutions, and socio-political perspectives on development in India with a special focus on North-East India. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or...

Since the end of the Second World War, poverty in the United States has been a persistent focus of social anxiety, public debate, and federal policy. This volume argues convincingly that we will not be able to reduce or eliminate poverty until we take...

Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a "social volcano" of protest activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule? Many inside and outside of China have speculated, without evidence, that the answer...

Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise. In spite of growing media attention and new academic research on the issue, older people often remain unrecognized as a subpopulation in public policy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611860917Author Martha Aladjem BloomfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624176548Author Jacob A PezzoFormat HardbackPage Count 129Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 326g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619428294Author Milton L JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 125Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 412g