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  • The Value of Homelessness

    Managing Surplus Life in the United States

    door Craig Willse ...
    Serie series Difference Incorporated
    It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. The Value of Homelessness, however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will?or ultimately won’t?be done about it.Through a history of U.S. housing insecurity from the 1930s to the present ... Meer lezen

    14,19 €

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  • Gang Leader for a Day

    door Sudhir Venkatesh ...
    Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in Freakonomics (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his time living with the gangs on the Southside of Chicago and answers another question: what's it like to live in hell?In the Robert Taylor Homes projects on Chicago's South Side, Sudhir befriends J.T., a gang leader for the Black Kings. As he slowly gains J.T.'s ... Meer lezen

    9,49 €

  • What's Wrong With The World

    door G. K. Chesterton ...
    What's Wrong With The World - G. K. Chesterton - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them ... Meer lezen

    5,99 €

  • Amazing Grace

    The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

    door Jonathan Kozol ...
    The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods. ... Meer lezen

    8,26 €

  • Urban Injustice

    How Ghettos Happen

    door David Hilfiker ...
    David Hilfiker has committed his life, both as a writer and a doctor, to people in need, writing about the urban poor with whom he’s spent all his days for the last two decades. In Urban Injustice, he explains in beautiful and simple language how the myth that the urban poor siphon off precious government resources is contradicted by the facts, and how most programs help some of the people some of ... Meer lezen

    9,00 €

  • The Year of Disappearances

    Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922

    door Gerard Murphy ...
    'Every spy who was shot in Cork was buried so that nothing was known about them. They just disappeared.' These are the words of an IRA commander recalling the War of Independence in Cork city. The Year of Disappearances examines this claim and others like it. It uncovers a web of suspicion and paranoia that led to scores of men and boys being abducted from their homes before being executed as ... Meer lezen

    6,56 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Slumming

    Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

    door Seth Koven ...
    In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming ... Meer lezen

    12,29 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Slumming It

    The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

    door Fabian Frenzel ...
    Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums ... Meer lezen

    22,07 €

  • Reckoning with Homelessness

    door Kim Hopper ...
    Serie series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    "It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without food, without shelter, without security."—homeless woman, Grand Central Station, winter"Homelessness is a routine fact of life on the margins. Materially, it emerges out of a tangled but unmysterious mix of factors: scarce housing, poorly planned and badly implemented policies of relocation and support, ... Meer lezen

    23,31 €

  • Better Must Come

    Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities

    door Matthew D. Marr ...
    In Better Must Come**, Matthew D. Marr reveals how social contexts at various levels combine and interact to shape the experiences of transitional housing program users in two of the most prosperous cities of the global economy, Los Angeles and Tokyo.** Marr, who has conducted fieldwork in U.S. and Japanese cities for over two decades, followed the experiences of thirty-four people as they made ... Meer lezen

    24,37 €

  • More Than Bread

    Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen

    door Irene Glasser ...
    More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state. What happens when one hundred guests, which include single mothers, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and the chronically unemployed, representing diverse age groups and ethnicities, come together in the dining room for several hours each day? Irene Glasser ... Meer lezen

    20,66 €

  • Separate Societies

    Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities

    “Economic and political forces no longer combat poverty—they generate poverty!" exclaim William Goldsmith and Edward Blakely in their report on the plight of American's urban poor. In this revised and updated edition of their 1992 book Separate Societies,the authors present a compelling examination of the damaging divisions that isolate poor city minority residents from the middle-class suburban ... Meer lezen

    23,10 €