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Book SynopsisIn For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home. Conventionally, home is framed as a place of security and belonging, while its loss defines what it means to be homeless. On the basis of this binary, a whole industry of policy interventions, knowledge production, and organizing fails to provide solutions to homelessness but perpetuates violent and precarious forms of inhabitation. Drawing on his research and activism around housing in Europe, Lancione attends to the interlocking crises of home and homelessness by recentering the political charge of precarious dwelling. It is there, if often in unannounced ways, that a profound struggle for a differential kind of homing signals multiple possibilities to transcend the violences of home/homelessness. In advancing a new approach to work with the politics ofTrade Review“Michele Lancione has given us a tremendous gift with this pathbreaking and brilliant book. His arguments will be of immense meaning for social movements concerned with housing justice, many of which are grappling with regimes of property and the affective politics of home. The study of housing and homelessness will not be the same.” -- Ananya Roy, author of * Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development *“By mobilizing a new methodological, conceptual, and political grammar in which home and homelessness are not opposite but coherent expressions of a wider function of patriarchal and racialized processes of expulsions and extractions, this book offers a whole new perspective to imagine housing futures toward housing justice in which ‘housing precarity’ is not only a site for deprivation and relegation or a ‘problem to be fixed’ but can also perform a new politics of inhabitation.” -- Raquel Rolnik, author of * Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Problem of Lessness 1 Part I 1. The Subject at Home 25 2. Expulsion and Extraction 43 Part II 3. Italian Ritornellos 69 4. A Local Violence 99 5. A Global Culture 131 Part III 6. The Micropolitics of Housing Precarity 173 7. Deinstitute, Reinstitute, Institute 195 Conclusion. Beyond Inhabitation 223 Notes 233 Bibliography 257 Index 279

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Book SynopsisA journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too often depicted as an urban problem, a male problem, a problem that disproportionately affects people of color. This book, however, takes readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women of the rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap to keep women literally and figuratively imprisoned. Outlaw Women examines the forces that shape women's experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as the Western frontier. Drawing on dozens of interviews with women in the state of Wyoming who were incarcerated or on parole, the authors provide an in-depth examination of women's perceptions of their lives before, during, and after imprisonment. Considering cultural mores specific to the rural West, the authors identify the forces that coTrade ReviewA unique, readable, lengthy study of female incarceration in the Wyoming women's prison, one of 67 state women's prisons in the US. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisCan American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells the remarkable story of how America's largest city has struggled for more than thirty years to meet the crisis of modern homelessness through the landmark development, since the initiation of the Callahan v Carey litigation in 1979, of a municipal shelter system based on a court-enforced right to shelter. New York City now shelters more than 50,000 otherwise homeless people at an annual cost of more than $1 billion in the largest and most complex shelter system in the world. Establishing the right to shelter was a dramatic break with long established practice. Developing and managing the shelter system required the city to repeatedly overcome daunting challenges, from dealing with mentally ill street dwellers to confronting communTrade Review"A must-read . . . a ray of hope as we consider the current political climate." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"An invaluable resource to scholars studying contemporary homelessness and urban policy. Main provides an in-depth narrative of important moments of policymaking, showing the significant cumulative impact of seemingly minute events." * Gotham Center *"A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of homeless policy in urban America." * Choice *"Mains account of key developments in homelessness policy in New York City is meticulously researched, highly detailed, and worthy of praise. The book makes extensive and effective use of interviews that the author conducted with a wide range of policy actors past and present . . .a compelling history of what has been done to date and how we got where we are." * European Journal of Homelessness *"[Main's] attention to detail and balanced judgment makes this a valuable history of social-policy research." * City Journal *"Historians of public policy and urban politics in particular will appreciate this glimpse into the inner workings of how experts, activists, and public officials attempted to address the problem of homelessness in the nations largest city. This book will also be useful in undergraduate and graduate courses on policy history, urban history, and recent U.S. history." * Journal of American History *"Thomas J. Main...delivers a comprehensive history of New York's ongoing efforts to address [the problem of homelessness]...A detailed, carefully nuanced, and balanced account that brings the issue's convoluted history to life in a way that elucidates the city's ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to solve this seemingly insoluble problem." * Political Science Quarterly *"Clear, well-written, and well-researched. If you are going to debate homelessness in New York, this is the neoconservative analysis with which you should argue." -- Joel Blau,Stony Brook University"Government has wrestled with homelessness for decades, especially in New York. Thomas Main's book is the definitive account of that struggle. It is deeply researched, fluently written, and absolutely absorbing. It is also even-handed. Main questions the nostrums for social problems peddled by left and right, but he also rejects the view that government must inevitably fail. Rather, progress is possibleif we persevere. There are answersbut not easy ones. As Max Weber said, politics is 'the strong and slow boring of hard boards.'" -- Lawrence M. Mead,author of The New Politics of Poverty"Professor Main narrates a fascinating history of one of New York Citys greatest social struggles of the last third of a century. It is compelling reading, filled with battles fought and lessons learned in moving a government and a society to a better place." -- Robert Hayes,Founder, National and New York Coalitions for the Homeless and MacArthur Foundation Fellow"This finely crafted study invites us to explore a double paradox: first, that policies addressing homelessness in New York City are legally and morally necessary, but politically and substantively difficult to impossible; and second, that relatively conservative mayoral administrations developed the nations largest and best funded set of programs for weak, vulnerable, and marginal populations. It is a probing investigation of vexing policy challenges." -- John Mollenkopf,Distinguished Professor, City University of New York"Thomas Main has produced a well documented and comprehensive analysis of five mayors' efforts over more than thirty years to respond to the growing challenge of urban homelessness. Readers interested in issues of big cities and the policy process that drives politicians actions will learn much from this book." -- Charles Brecher,New York University"Homelessness in New York City is one of the big stories of the last several decades as inequality returns to the U.S. Lots of people know the story, but usually only small pieces of it. Some people know the legal battles, and others know the funding streams; some scholars follow the aggregate numbers and others study particular interventions; many writers have told stories of individual trials and triumphs, and homeless people, too, have their own important versions of what happened to them. But we have all been handicapped because we could not understand fully how our pieces fit together into a larger picture; the context has always been a little foggy. No longer. Main has given us a definitive history of modern homelessness in New York City. This is the book you should start with to understand how we got where we are." -- Brendan O'Flaherty,Columbia University"An accessible and diligently researched account, drawing on a wide range of . . . sources and interviews with key politicians, public officials, homeless advocates, service providers and researchers." -- Tom Baker * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *

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Book SynopsisSurviving Poverty carefully examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking in particular at the tension between social isolation and social ties among the poor. Joan Maya Mazelis draws on in-depth interviews with poor people in Philadelphia to explore how they survive and the benefits they gain by being connected to one another. Half of the study participants are members of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a distinctive organization that brings poor people together in the struggle to survive. The mutually supportive relationships the members create, which last for years, even decades, contrast dramatically with the experiences of participants without such affiliation. In interviews, participants discuss their struggles and hardships, and their responses highlight the importance of cultivating relationships among people living in poverty. Surviving Poverty documents the ways in which social ties become beneficial and sustainable, allowing members to shareTrade Review"Surviving Poverty eschews easy generalizations about how poor women manage their circumstances. In a richly detailed study, it paints a complex picture in which people differ widely in their attitudes about mobility and about getting help from others and in their use of social networks to manage the difficulties of poverty. Rejecting a narrative that blames the victim, Mazelis depicts people who exercise agency in their lives and whose complex attitudes about social support networks resist easy explanation. A must-read study for anyone concerned with policies that take into account the role of networks in how people manage poverty." -- Mario Luis Small,author of Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life"A compelling narrative of a remarkable poor people's movement that builds sustainable ties that are vital to survival while providing an antidote to crippling self-blame. This book is jam-packed with essential insights for anyone--scholars, students, practitioners, advocates--who cares about America's poor." -- Kathryn J. Edin,co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America"The book provides a compelling account of how KWRU members lives would likely have been worse without KWRU and that much of what KWRU provided was these sustainable ties." * American Journal of Sociology *"Mazelis presents a well-written, deeply contextualized account of 50 individuals experiencing financial hardships and the decision-making practices that impact their daily struggles." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisSurviving Poverty carefully examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking in particular at the tension between social isolation and social ties among the poor. Joan Maya Mazelis draws on in-depth interviews with poor people in Philadelphia to explore how they survive and the benefits they gain by being connected to one another. Half of the study participants are members of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a distinctive organization that brings poor people together in the struggle to survive. The mutually supportive relationships the members create, which last for years, even decades, contrast dramatically with the experiences of participants without such affiliation. In interviews, participants discuss their struggles and hardships, and their responses highlight the importance of cultivating relationships among people living in poverty. Surviving Poverty documents the ways in which social ties become beneficial and sustainable, allowing members to shareTrade ReviewSurviving Poverty eschews easy generalizations about how poor women manage their circumstances. In a richly detailed study, it paints a complex picture in which people differ widely in their attitudes about mobility and about getting help from others and in their use of social networks to manage the difficulties of poverty. Rejecting a narrative that blames the victim, Mazelis depicts people who exercise agency in their lives and whose complex attitudes about social support networks resist easy explanation. A must-read study for anyone concerned with policies that take into account the role of networks in how people manage poverty. -- Mario Luis Small,author of Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday LifeA compelling narrative of a remarkable poor people's movement that builds sustainable ties that are vital to survival while providing an antidote to crippling self-blame. This book is jam-packed with essential insights for anyone--scholars, students, practitioners, advocates--who cares about America's poor. -- Kathryn J. Edin,co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in AmericaThe book provides a compelling account of how KWRU members lives would likely have been worse without KWRU and that much of what KWRU provided was these sustainable ties. * American Journal of Sociology *Mazelis presents a well-written, deeply contextualized account of 50 individuals experiencing financial hardships and the decision-making practices that impact their daily struggles. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisCan American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells the remarkable story of how America's largest city has struggled for more than thirty years to meet the crisis of modern homelessness through the landmark development, since the initiation of the Callahan v Carey litigation in 1979, of a municipal shelter system based on a court-enforced right to shelter. New York City now shelters more than 50,000 otherwise homeless people at an annual cost of more than $1 billion in the largest and most complex shelter system in the world. Establishing the right to shelter was a dramatic break with long established practice. Developing and managing the shelter system required the city to repeatedly overcome daunting challenges, from dealing with mentally ill street dwellers to confronting communTrade ReviewA must-read . . . a ray of hope as we consider the current political climate. * Journal of Urban Affairs *An invaluable resource to scholars studying contemporary homelessness and urban policy. Main provides an in-depth narrative of important moments of policymaking, showing the significant cumulative impact of seemingly minute events. * Gotham Center *A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of homeless policy in urban America. * Choice *Mains account of key developments in homelessness policy in New York City is meticulously researched, highly detailed, and worthy of praise. The book makes extensive and effective use of interviews that the author conducted with a wide range of policy actors past and present . . .a compelling history of what has been done to date and how we got where we are. * European Journal of Homelessness *[Main's] attention to detail and balanced judgment makes this a valuable history of social-policy research. * City Journal *Historians of public policy and urban politics in particular will appreciate this glimpse into the inner workings of how experts, activists, and public officials attempted to address the problem of homelessness in the nations largest city. This book will also be useful in undergraduate and graduate courses on policy history, urban history, and recent U.S. history. * Journal of American History *Thomas J. Main...delivers a comprehensive history of New York's ongoing efforts to address [the problem of homelessness]...A detailed, carefully nuanced, and balanced account that brings the issue's convoluted history to life in a way that elucidates the city's ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to solve this seemingly insoluble problem. * Political Science Quarterly *Clear, well-written, and well-researched. If you are going to debate homelessness in New York, this is the neoconservative analysis with which you should argue. -- Joel Blau,Stony Brook UniversityGovernment has wrestled with homelessness for decades, especially in New York. Thomas Main's book is the definitive account of that struggle. It is deeply researched, fluently written, and absolutely absorbing. It is also even-handed. Main questions the nostrums for social problems peddled by left and right, but he also rejects the view that government must inevitably fail. Rather, progress is possibleif we persevere. There are answersbut not easy ones. As Max Weber said, politics is 'the strong and slow boring of hard boards.' -- Lawrence M. Mead,author of The New Politics of PovertyProfessor Main narrates a fascinating history of one of New York Citys greatest social struggles of the last third of a century. It is compelling reading, filled with battles fought and lessons learned in moving a government and a society to a better place. -- Robert Hayes,Founder, National and New York Coalitions for the Homeless and MacArthur Foundation FellowThis finely crafted study invites us to explore a double paradox: first, that policies addressing homelessness in New York City are legally and morally necessary, but politically and substantively difficult to impossible; and second, that relatively conservative mayoral administrations developed the nations largest and best funded set of programs for weak, vulnerable, and marginal populations. It is a probing investigation of vexing policy challenges. -- John Mollenkopf,Distinguished Professor, City University of New YorkThomas Main has produced a well documented and comprehensive analysis of five mayors' efforts over more than thirty years to respond to the growing challenge of urban homelessness. Readers interested in issues of big cities and the policy process that drives politicians actions will learn much from this book. -- Charles Brecher,New York UniversityHomelessness in New York City is one of the big stories of the last several decades as inequality returns to the U.S. Lots of people know the story, but usually only small pieces of it. Some people know the legal battles, and others know the funding streams; some scholars follow the aggregate numbers and others study particular interventions; many writers have told stories of individual trials and triumphs, and homeless people, too, have their own important versions of what happened to them. But we have all been handicapped because we could not understand fully how our pieces fit together into a larger picture; the context has always been a little foggy. No longer. Main has given us a definitive history of modern homelessness in New York City. This is the book you should start with to understand how we got where we are. -- Brendan O'Flaherty,Columbia UniversityAn accessible and diligently researched account, drawing on a wide range of . . . sources and interviews with key politicians, public officials, homeless advocates, service providers and researchers. -- Tom Baker * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *

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Book SynopsisErik Hansson examines Swedish society's reactions to the presence of European Union citizens, mainly Romanian and Bulgarian Roma, begging in the 2010s.Trade Review"This brilliant and intense book is recommended for anyone conducting research on homelessness and urban poverty in general."—Hélène B. Ducros, EuropeNow“Politically urgent, theoretically exciting, and beautifully written, The Begging Question combines razor-sharp materialist and psychoanalytic analysis to offer a radical rethinking of begging and of how to escape the limited political and ethical imaginaries that surround it.”—Felicity Callard, professor of human geography at the University of Glasgow“Artfully exposes the unconscious underpinnings of social democracy in Sweden, showing how it is laced with proclivities to scapegoat the Other. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary forms of racism and poverty.”—Ilan Kapoor, professor of critical development studies at York University, Toronto“Erik Hansson innovatively combines theories of psychoanalysis, class dynamics, and racism to explain anxieties in encountering begging and contradictory political responses to the arrival of Roma from the European Union.”—Michael Jones, professor emeritus of geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology“A rich and thought-provoking examination of the emergence of racialized poverty and begging in one of Europe’s historically most egalitarian social democracies. Drawing creatively on Marxist and psychoanalytic theory, Erik Hansson opens a vital space to reflect—politically and psychically—on what inequality, nationalism, and the politics of redistribution mean in Sweden today.”—Jesse Proudfoot, assistant professor of sociology at Durham UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Don Mitchell Acknowledgments The Problem: An Introduction Part 1. Anxiety: The Universal in the Particular 1. Searching for Elucidations 2. The Concrete’s Historical Layers 3. Abjection, or Hell Is Othered People 4. Anxiety and Ethics 5. Ideology, or Enjoying the National Thing Part 2. Hegemony: The Particular in the Universal 6. The Swedish Ideology, or Missing Exceptional Equality 7. The Tolerant Stance of Inaction, 2010–2015 8. The Borromean Welfare Knot 9. The Conjuncture, 2015–2019 The Problem: An Epitome Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Goetz traces the tensions involved in housing integration and policy to show why he doesn''t see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their communities. The One-Way Street of Integration critiques fair housing integration policies for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Goetz challenges liberal orthodoxy, determining that the standard efforts toward integration are unlikely to lead to racial equity or racial justice in American cities. In fact, in this pursuit it is the community development movement rather that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social jTrade ReviewA courageous work in that Goetz confronts a difficult debate head on. Goetz gives clear guidance about what he believes to be the way forward. * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Should stimulate debate. * Choice *Professor Goetz's sweeping indictment of the well-intentioned effort to advance racial integration deserves thoughtful consideration; it should inspire wide-ranging debate. * The Metropole *Goetz has presented compelling arguments for his position on locating subsidized housing, favoring the community development movement. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Goetz has written an important and timely book. Beyond its substantial contribution to the scholarly literature on American urban policy, infinitely more important is its potential to aid in the ongoing struggle against racial injustice and American white supremacy—something needed now perhaps more than ever. * Shelterforce *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Alternative Approaches to RegionalEquity and Racial Justice 1. The Integration Imperative 2. Affirmatively Furthering Community Development 3. The "Hollow Prospect" of Integration 4. The Three Stations of Fair Housing Spatial Strategy 5. New Issues, Unresolved Questions, and the Widening Debate Conclusion: Everyone Deserves to Live in anOpportunity Neighborhood

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Book SynopsisThe Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life.Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless. Interviews and encounters with dozens of homeless people lead us into a world that most have never seen. We travel as an intimate observer into the places that many homeless frequent, including a community shelter, a day labor agency, a panhandling corner, a pawn shop, and a HUD housing office.Through these personal stories, we witness the obstacles that homeless people face, and the ingenuity it takes to negotiate life without a home. The Man in the Dog Park points to the ways that our own cultural assumptions and blind spots are complicit in US homelessness and contribute to the degree of suffering that homeless people face. At the same time, Small, Kordosky and Moore show us how our own senTrade ReviewThe strength of this book is that Small takes readers with her on her journey of discovery about homelessness. This book is a wonderful introduction to the study of homelessness. * Choice *Table of Contents1. The Beginning 2. The Road to Homelessness 3. The Stigma of Being Homeless 4. A Sheltered. Homeless Day 5. On the Street 6. Making Money 7. Navigating the Bereaucracy 8. Home at Last 9. Blind and Delusional

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Book SynopsisThe gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial precarity that can instantly become untenable in the face of another big expense, such as a large medical bill or damaged property. Historically, people have turned to their communities, neighbors, families, and loved ones for help in these situations. Today, asking for money on the internet through crowdfunding is among the most popular ways of seeking and donating to charity, and for-profit enterprises have realized that tapping into this instinct for helping is extremely good business. GoFailMe reveals how these sites, most notably GoFundMe, enjoy massive revenue, without providing the help they promise. They fail most of their users while putting them through an emotional rollercoaster and using sneaky tactics to obscure that reality. With unprecedented access to interviews, surveys, and hundreds of thousands of crowdfunding cases across North America, Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk take on pressing questions with critical insight: When do we turn to others for help? Who succeeds and who fails in the digital crowd? Whom do these sites benefit? Ultimately, the failure of GoFundMe and others is emblematic of the inability of the for-profit sector and Big Tech to engineer an end to social inequality. Trade Review"Cancer, emergency, dreams at risk. Through new technologies of crowdfunding, these crises elicit help from friends, family and strangers. While admirable, this extended altruism often disappoints and fails to meet the gaps in a weakening social safety net. Incisive, rigorously original, and accessible, GoFailMe illuminates how a new industry is reshaping social solidarity."—Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago"Crowdfunding has become an important part of contemporary philanthropy, providing opportunities for ethical expression as well as needed transfers of funds. Like social media, it offers individuals a chance to engage directly in providing help, whether to friends or to strangers, without relying on traditional institutions. In this first major study of digital philanthropy, Schneiderhan and Lukk provide narratives showing what this means for the donors and beneficiaries, and also what reveals about charity in a shifting social context."—Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University"In their compelling, well-documented book, [Schneiderhan and Lukk] examine thousands of crowdsourcing cases across Canada and the U.S. on websites like GoFundMe. Their book shows that sites like these often fail users and are rife with inequities that closely parallel the social problems that plague societies today.... For readers who are contemplating either setting up a crowdsourcing site or donating to one."—Ellen Gilbert, Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Rise of Digital Crowdfunding Chapter 2: A Well of Sadness Chapter 3: A Very Daunting Task Chapter 4: Queen for A Day? Chapter 5: What to Know Better, Do Better, Help Better

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Book SynopsisSince the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasingly precarious. In response, many movements now contest the long-held promises and established terms of the private ownership of housing. Immigrant activism has played an important, if understudied, role in such struggles over collective consumption. In Dispossession and Dissent, Sophie Gonick examines the intersection of homeownership and immigrant activism through an analysis of Spain's anti-evictions movement, now a hallmark for housing struggles across the globe. Madrid was the crucible for Spain's urban planning and policy, its millennial economic boom (1998–2008), and its more recent mobilizations in response to crisis. During the boom, the city also experienced rapid, unprecedented immigration. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Gonick uncovers the city's histories of homeownership and immigration to demonstrate the pivotal role of Andean immigrants within this movement, as the first to contest dispossession from mortgage-related foreclosures and evictions. Consequently, they forged a potent politics of dissent, which drew upon migratory experiences and indigenous traditions of activism to contest foreclosures and evictions.Trade Review"In this beautifully crafted ethnography, Sophie Gonick reveals the dark side of speculative homeownership and the startling vibrancy and camaraderie of immigrant-led urban activism. A wonderful treatise on these turbulent yet hopeful times."—Michael Goldman, author of Imperial Nature"Gonick offers a counter-narrative to familiar accounts that emphasize rising nativism and xenophobia amid segments of the working classes in southern Europe. There are important lessons here for how broad-based progressive alliances can form in the face of collapsing property markets and accumulation by dispossession."—Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago"Dispossession and Dissent is to be commended for combining oral histories and rich analytics to help us understand not only immigrant integration in Spain but also the importance of homeownership writ large.... Dispossession and Dissent enhances our knowledge of housing and its consequences for immigrant integration."—Peter Catron, American Journal of SociologyTable of Contents1. Immigration, Homeownership, and Activism 2. Mortgaged Inclusion 3. Homeownership's Urbanism 4. Citizen Homeowner 5. Debt Sentences 6. Immigrant Capital 7. Waking the Civil Dead 8. Imagining Urban Futures in the Age of Uncertainty

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Book SynopsisSince the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasingly precarious. In response, many movements now contest the long-held promises and established terms of the private ownership of housing. Immigrant activism has played an important, if understudied, role in such struggles over collective consumption. In Dispossession and Dissent, Sophie Gonick examines the intersection of homeownership and immigrant activism through an analysis of Spain's anti-evictions movement, now a hallmark for housing struggles across the globe. Madrid was the crucible for Spain's urban planning and policy, its millennial economic boom (1998–2008), and its more recent mobilizations in response to crisis. During the boom, the city also experienced rapid, unprecedented immigration. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Gonick uncovers the city's histories of homeownership and immigration to demonstrate the pivotal role of Andean immigrants within this movement, as the first to contest dispossession from mortgage-related foreclosures and evictions. Consequently, they forged a potent politics of dissent, which drew upon migratory experiences and indigenous traditions of activism to contest foreclosures and evictions.Trade Review"In this beautifully crafted ethnography, Sophie Gonick reveals the dark side of speculative homeownership and the startling vibrancy and camaraderie of immigrant-led urban activism. A wonderful treatise on these turbulent yet hopeful times."—Michael Goldman, author of Imperial Nature"Gonick offers a counter-narrative to familiar accounts that emphasize rising nativism and xenophobia amid segments of the working classes in southern Europe. There are important lessons here for how broad-based progressive alliances can form in the face of collapsing property markets and accumulation by dispossession."—Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago"Dispossession and Dissent is to be commended for combining oral histories and rich analytics to help us understand not only immigrant integration in Spain but also the importance of homeownership writ large.... Dispossession and Dissent enhances our knowledge of housing and its consequences for immigrant integration."—Peter Catron, American Journal of SociologyTable of Contents1. Immigration, Homeownership, and Activism 2. Mortgaged Inclusion 3. Homeownership's Urbanism 4. Citizen Homeowner 5. Debt Sentences 6. Immigrant Capital 7. Waking the Civil Dead 8. Imagining Urban Futures in the Age of Uncertainty

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Book SynopsisThe gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial precarity that can instantly become untenable in the face of another big expense, such as a large medical bill or damaged property. Historically, people have turned to their communities, neighbors, families, and loved ones for help in these situations. Today, asking for money on the internet through crowdfunding is among the most popular ways of seeking and donating to charity, and for-profit enterprises have realized that tapping into this instinct for helping is extremely good business. GoFailMe reveals how these sites, most notably GoFundMe, enjoy massive revenue, without providing the help they promise. They fail most of their users while putting them through an emotional rollercoaster and using sneaky tactics to obscure that reality. With unprecedented access to interviews, surveys, and hundreds of thousands of crowdfunding cases across North America, Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk take on pressing questions with critical insight: When do we turn to others for help? Who succeeds and who fails in the digital crowd? Whom do these sites benefit? Ultimately, the failure of GoFundMe and others is emblematic of the inability of the for-profit sector and Big Tech to engineer an end to social inequality. Trade Review"Cancer, emergency, dreams at risk. Through new technologies of crowdfunding, these crises elicit help from friends, family and strangers. While admirable, this extended altruism often disappoints and fails to meet the gaps in a weakening social safety net. Incisive, rigorously original, and accessible, GoFailMe illuminates how a new industry is reshaping social solidarity."—Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago"Crowdfunding has become an important part of contemporary philanthropy, providing opportunities for ethical expression as well as needed transfers of funds. Like social media, it offers individuals a chance to engage directly in providing help, whether to friends or to strangers, without relying on traditional institutions. In this first major study of digital philanthropy, Schneiderhan and Lukk provide narratives showing what this means for the donors and beneficiaries, and also what reveals about charity in a shifting social context."—Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University"In their compelling, well-documented book, [Schneiderhan and Lukk] examine thousands of crowdsourcing cases across Canada and the U.S. on websites like GoFundMe. Their book shows that sites like these often fail users and are rife with inequities that closely parallel the social problems that plague societies today.... For readers who are contemplating either setting up a crowdsourcing site or donating to one."—Ellen Gilbert, Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Rise of Digital Crowdfunding Chapter 2: A Well of Sadness Chapter 3: A Very Daunting Task Chapter 4: Queen for A Day? Chapter 5: What to Know Better, Do Better, Help Better

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Book SynopsisWide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human Over the past decade, digital media has expanded exponentially, becoming an essential part of daily life. The stimulating essays and experimental compositions in The User Unconscious delve into the ways digital media and computational technologies fundamentally affect our sense of self and the world we live in, from both human and other-than-human perspectives.Critical theorist Patricia Ticineto Clough’s provocative essays center around the motif of the “user unconscious” to advance the challenging thesis that that we are both human and other-than-human: we now live, think, and dream within multiple layers of computational networks that are constantly present, radically transforming subjectivity, sociality, and unconscious processes.Drawing together rising strains of philosophy, critical theory, and media studies, as well as the political, social, and economic transformations that are shaping the twenty-first-century world, The User Unconscious points toward emergent crises and potentialities in both human subjectivity and sociality. Moving from affect to data, Clough forces us to see that digital media and computational technologies are not merely controlling us—they have already altered what it means to be human.Trade Review"The essays collected in The User Unconscious, each in its own way and together, are groundbreaking in that they brilliantly pose problems of affect, media, and measure as questions of memory, embodiment, and subjectivation in the datalogical era. Drawing on the best in critical theory, philosophy, and media studies, Patricia Ticineto Clough shows us how to intervene more effectively in the present configuration of digital media and computational technologies in the afterward of neoliberalism and biopolitics."—Amit S. Rai, Queen Mary, University of London"Weaving together the analytical and the lyrical threads of her collective work, Patricia Ticineto Clough takes us to the originary technicity of an unconscious that starts experimenting with the nonhuman modalities of affect, media, and datalogics. These critical and poetic writings about the auto-affective reconfigurations of information governance are a compelling excursus into the political sensibilities for thinking technology today."—Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths University of London"This is a gorgeous collection of essays and poems from one of our finest thinkers of technology, affect, and biopolitics. Patricia Ticineto Clough pushes thought to new edges, always coercing the bounds between what can be known, not-known, and un-known."—Jasbir Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"If the most important part of a text on affect is the capacities it opens up for humans, then Clough is more than successful. By integrating personal narrative and poetry, she made this book more digestible and more human, which is ultimately the point."—Hyperrhiz"The User Unconscious is extremely efficient in making syntheses, tweaks, and combinations of theories in the field."—AfterimageTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionNotes towards A Theory of Affect-ItselfPatricia Ticineto Clough, Greg Goldberg, Rachel Schiff, Aaron Weeks, and Craig WillseWar by Other Means: What Difference Do(es) the Graphic(s) Make?Praying and Playing to the Beat of a Child’s Metronome Gendered Security/National Security: Political Branding and Population RacismPatricia Ticineto Clough and Craig WillseMy Mother’s Scream Feminist Theory: Bodies, Science, and TechnologyA Dream of Falling: Philosophy and Family Violence The Datalogical Turn Patricia Ticineto Clough, Karen Gregory, Benjamin Haber, R. Joshua ScannellThe Object’s Affects: The Rosary Rethinking Race, Calculation, Quantification and Measure And They Were DancingEcstatic Corona: From Ethnography to PerformanceAcknowledgmentsNotesPrevious PublicationsIndex

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanitiesIn recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scope—but what change will these conversations ultimately bring about? Can the digital humanities complicate the basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? Bodies of Information addresses this crucial question by assembling a varied group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to a panoply of topics, including ubiquitous computing, game studies, new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism, hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny.Taking intersectional feminism as the starting point for doing digital humanities, Bodies of Information is diverse in discipline, identity, location, and method. Helpfully organized around keywords of materiality, values, embodiment, affect, labor, and situatedness, this comprehensive volume is ideal for classrooms. And with its multiplicity of viewpoints and arguments, it’s also an important addition to the evolving conversations around one of the fastest growing fields in the academy.Contributors: Babalola Titilola Aiyegbusi, U of Lethbridge; Moya Bailey, Northeastern U; Bridget Blodgett, U of Baltimore; Barbara Bordalejo, KU Leuven; Jason Boyd, Ryerson U; Christina Boyles, Trinity College; Susan Brown, U of Guelph; Lisa Brundage, CUNY; micha cárdenas, U of Washington Bothell; Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown U; Danielle Cole; Beth Coleman, U of Waterloo; T. L. Cowan, U of Toronto; Constance Crompton, U of Ottawa; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M; Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, U of Colorado Boulder; Julia Flanders, Northeastern U Library; Sandra Gabriele, Concordia U; Brian Getnick; Karen Gregory, U of Edinburgh; Alison Hedley, Ryerson U; Kathryn Holland, MacEwan U; James Howe, Rutgers U; Jeana Jorgensen, Indiana U; Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Dorothy Kim, Vassar College; Kimberly Knight, U of Texas, Dallas; Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson U; Sharon M. Leon, Michigan State; Izetta Autumn Mobley, U of Maryland; Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; Veronica Paredes, U of Illinois; Roopika Risam, Salem State; Bonnie Ruberg, U of California, Irvine; Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel), U of California, Santa Barbara; Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida; Michelle Schwartz, Ryerson U; Emily Sherwood, U of Rochester; Deb Verhoeven, U of Technology, Sydney; Scott B. Weingart, Carnegie Mellon U.

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Book SynopsisMaintains that poverty has become, to the peril of us all, an ordinary part of lifeTrade Review"This is a book written by a frustrated and angry man [who] spent nearly 20 years working as a volunteer in the Bread and Life soup kitchen.[it] is an attempt to make sense of that experience .. DiFazio does not have all the answers. But he asks the right questions and puts poverty and hardship back at the centre of discussion. He challenges us to face up to our responsibility to act. Inequality and low wages are key issues which have been ignored for too long-in Britain as in America." The Tribune "DiFazio has made a clear critique of current poverty theories, policies, and responses...this is a provocative and illuminating synthesis that urges students, scholars, researchers, advocates, activists, and policymakers to think and act outside our current poverty definitions, theories, and policies, the structure of our advocacy and helping organizations, and the overall national and global economy in which these are set." Contemporary Sociology "The book presents a cogent analysis of poverty gleaned in part from the author's work at St. John's Bread and Life soup kitchen in Brooklyn. His interviews, observations, and social analysis powerfully rebut those social theorists and politicians who argue that people are poor out of cultural or personal inferiority." - Socialism and Democracy "Ordinary Poverty is an astute book that stands out from most of the work that is published on poverty and anti-poverty activism. It is far better theoretically informed than most of that work and its dual emphasis...provides the likely demands for a rejuvenated anti-poverty movement headed by the poor." Labour/Le Travail "DiFazio offers an outraged exegesis of the exacerbation of poverty amid an economic boom that has increased the wealth of only the richest...His ethnographic contribution is strongest in his description of the travails of long-term social service provision in the late 1980s and into the 1990s." The American Journal of Sociology "This estimable book is at once an ethnographic account of the author's experiences from 1988 to 2001 as a volunteer field worker for the St. John's Bread and Life soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn... DiFazio's proposals for solving the problem of poverty in the United States are not new...but they acquire a fresh relevance... One of the strengths of this book is its vivid portraits of the people whose poverty has become 'ordinary' inasmuch as present-day capitalist America looks upon their existence as a normal part of the social fabric... Ordinary Poverty is an impassioned, politically engaged, intellectually challenging study of one of the central unresolved problems of American social and political life." Science & Society, April 2009

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Book SynopsisMaintains that poverty has become, to the peril of us all, an ordinary part of lifeTrade Review"This is a book written by a frustrated and angry man [who] spent nearly 20 years working as a volunteer in the Bread and Life soup kitchen.[it] is an attempt to make sense of that experience .. DiFazio does not have all the answers. But he asks the right questions and puts poverty and hardship back at the centre of discussion. He challenges us to face up to our responsibility to act. Inequality and low wages are key issues which have been ignored for too long-in Britain as in America." The Tribune "DiFazio has made a clear critique of current poverty theories, policies, and responses...this is a provocative and illuminating synthesis that urges students, scholars, researchers, advocates, activists, and policymakers to think and act outside our current poverty definitions, theories, and policies, the structure of our advocacy and helping organizations, and the overall national and global economy in which these are set." Contemporary Sociology "The book presents a cogent analysis of poverty gleaned in part from the author's work at St. John's Bread and Life soup kitchen in Brooklyn. His interviews, observations, and social analysis powerfully rebut those social theorists and politicians who argue that people are poor out of cultural or personal inferiority." - Socialism and Democracy "Ordinary Poverty is an astute book that stands out from most of the work that is published on poverty and anti-poverty activism. It is far better theoretically informed than most of that work and its dual emphasis...provides the likely demands for a rejuvenated anti-poverty movement headed by the poor." Labour/Le Travail "DiFazio offers an outraged exegesis of the exacerbation of poverty amid an economic boom that has increased the wealth of only the richest...His ethnographic contribution is strongest in his description of the travails of long-term social service provision in the late 1980s and into the 1990s." The American Journal of Sociology "This estimable book is at once an ethnographic account of the author's experiences from 1988 to 2001 as a volunteer field worker for the St. John's Bread and Life soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn... DiFazio's proposals for solving the problem of poverty in the United States are not new...but they acquire a fresh relevance... One of the strengths of this book is its vivid portraits of the people whose poverty has become 'ordinary' inasmuch as present-day capitalist America looks upon their existence as a normal part of the social fabric... Ordinary Poverty is an impassioned, politically engaged, intellectually challenging study of one of the central unresolved problems of American social and political life." Science & Society, April 2009

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Book SynopsisStreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami is a collection of interviews with 28 homeless individuals living in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Besides extensive photographs of these people and their lives on the street, the book also includes interviews with social service providers, as well as a detailed analysis of homelessness in the United States and more specifically in Miami. The work concludes with a policy analysis and suggestions for addressing issues of homelessness in Miami and the nation.StreetWays attempts to make clear how and why homelessness occurs, and what the actual lives and experiences of the homeless are about. Through extensive interviews and extensive documentary photographs, a selected group of homeless Miamians lose their invisibility as their experiences, needs and aspirations are reported. The book calls for a better understanding of the experience of homelessness places such as Miami, and of the need to understand homelessness as an issue of diversity and human rights.

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Book SynopsisStreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami is a collection of interviews with 28 homeless individuals living in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Besides extensive photographs of these people and their lives on the street, the book also includes interviews with social service providers, as well as a detailed analysis of homelessness in the United States and more specifically in Miami. The work concludes with a policy analysis and suggestions for addressing issues of homelessness in Miami and the nation.StreetWays attempts to make clear how and why homelessness occurs, and what the actual lives and experiences of the homeless are about. Through extensive interviews and extensive documentary photographs, a selected group of homeless Miamians lose their invisibility as their experiences, needs and aspirations are reported. The book calls for a better understanding of the experience of homelessness places such as Miami, and of the need to understand homelessness as an issue of diversity and human rights.

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Book SynopsisThe first book to explore the complexities of homelessness in Australia – and the future policies likely to improve the situation.

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Book SynopsisA new focus on private renting has been brought into sharp relief by the global financial crisis, with its profound impact on mortgage finance, housing markets and government budgets.Written by specially commissioned international experts and structured around common themes, this timely book explores the nature and role of private renting in eight advanced economies around the world.The book examines in depth the size, shape and role of the private rented sector today. Topics covered include the funding, ownership and management of private rental housing. It also pays close attention to regulation of rents and security of tenure, as well as the role of taxation and subsidies. The book offers important insights into recent developments in demand and supply and on the role of individual landlords, property companies and institutional investors in the private rental housing market.The global financial crisis has made acquiring new homes for social renting and for owner occupation more difficult for low and moderate income households. This authoritative study will be of great interest to scholars and policy makers concerned with role of private renting in meeting housing demand and its impact on housing markets and public finances.Contributors: H.S. Anderson, T. Crook, M. Haffner, K. Hulse, R. James III, P.A. Kemp, S. Kofner, M. Pareja-Eastaway, T. Sánchez-Martínez, M.-A. StamsoTrade Review'Tony Crook and Peter Kemp have delivered a very timely book on Private Rental Housing before and after the global nancial crisis (GFC). . . Private rental housing: comparative perspectives provides an excellent over-view of context, characteristics and challenges facing the PRS in eight countries. The book is a must-read for policy-makers interested in lessons learned in private rental housing, albeit the book highlights that cross-national policy transfer is not straightforward. The book is an interesting read for housing scholars who want to be inspired by a well-organised volume of international comparative housing research that pays considerable attention to the impact of context on housing.' --International Journal of Housing Policy'With this book, Crook and Kemp provide a readable and well-organised introduction to private rented housing systems in other countries. The contributors are all well-known housing scholars (mostly economists), and provide a good overview of the various policy frameworks that condition private renting--including overall housing policy, rent and tenancy regulation, and tax treatment. The careful reader will come away with a better understanding of why simple policy transfer is not straightforward, especially in an area as complex, culturally meaningful and system-embedded as housing.' --Kath Scanion, LSE Review of Books'This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the topic of private renting, offering valuable insights into recent developments in demand and supply from a comparative perspective.' --Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction Tony Crook and Peter A. Kemp 2. Germany Peter A. Kemp and Stefan Kofner 3. The Netherlands Marietta Haffner 4. Spain Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Teresa Sánchez-Martínez 5. Denmark Hans Skifter Anderson 6. Norway Mary-Ann Stamsø 7. Australia Kath Hulse 8. England Tony Crook and Peter A. Kemp 9. USA Russell James III 10. Comparing Countries Tony Crook and Peter A. Kemp

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Book SynopsisBoth growth and unevenness in the distribution of housing wealth have become characteristic of advanced societies in recent decades. This book examines, in various contexts, how central housing property ownership has become to household well-being as well as in reshaping social, economic and political relations. Expert contributors analyze the critical interactions between housing and wealth that lie at the heart of contemporary forms of capitalism, especially its global, neoliberal incarnation. Comparing and contrasting case studies from across the European continent, this book illustrates how these interactions are reshaping the function of housing as a welfare object, including how the financialisation and commodification of housing in the twenty-first-century has transformed its role and amplified distributional outcomes. Practical and engaging, Housing Wealth and Welfare is a must-read for researchers and students of housing studies, social policy, sociology, social geography and political science. It will also appeal to policy makers within national and supra-national organisations and institutions such as the European Union, Housing Europe and the International Monetary Fund.Contributors include: B. Bengtsson, S. Buchholz, C. Dewilde, J. Doling, T.P. Gerber, K. Kolb, S. Köppe, C. Lennartz, S. Mandic, M. Mrzel, M. Norris, R. Ronald, H. Ruonavaara, B.A. Searle, A.M. Soaita, J. Sørvoll, A. Wallace, J.R. ZaviscaTrade Review'Home ownership has always been connected to both welfare and wealth, but the ties have been strengthened in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Now, the editors and authors of Housing Wealth and Welfare discuss the current state of affairs. They sketch different scenarios for different countries and cohorts but never lose touch of the general trends. Required reading for anyone interested in the various faces of home ownership.' --Manuel B. Aalbers, KU Leuven, Belgium'Housing Wealth and Welfare makes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of home ownership's role in shaping contemporary welfare states.' --Gavin Wood, RMIT University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Why housing wealth and welfare? Richard Ronald and Caroline Dewilde PART I OLD AND NEW CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF HOUSING AND WELFARE 2. The rise and fall of Ireland’s property based welfare state: Home ownership rates, policies and meanings in a historical perspective Michelle Norris 3. Home ownership, housing policy and path dependence in Finland, Norway and Sweden Bo Bengtsson, Hannu Ruonavaara and Jardar Sørvoll 4. Housing wealth and welfare over the life course Stephan Köppe and Beverley A. Searle 5. Housing wealth and welfare state restructuring – Between Asset-Based Welfare and the Social Investment Strategy Christian Lennartz PART II INSTITUTIONAL VARIEGATIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOUSING, WELFARE PROVISION AND INEQUALITY 6. Financial resilience and security: The impacts of the housing market downturn on low-income home owners in Northern Ireland Alison Wallace 7. Trends in social inequalities regarding home ownership: A comparison of East and West Germany Kathrin Kolb and Sandra Buchholz 8. Home ownership in post-socialist countries – The negative impact of the transition period on old-age welfare Srna Mandič and Maja Mrzel 9. Experiences of home ownership and housing mobility after privatization in Russia Jane R. Zavisca and Theodore P. Gerber 10. The changing nature of outright home ownership in Romania: Housing wealth and housing inequality Adriana Mihaela Soaita Epilogue Housing wealth and welfare: spatially and temporally contingent John Doling Index

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Book Synopsis'This book is unsettling, in the most enjoyable way. ''Home'' has long been a scholarly obsession, but where others try to pin down its ''meaning'', this collection revels in its multiplicity. By viewing home-making as practiced and mobile, these essays emphasise the 'interactional achievement' of people, spaces and things. It examines its scale - from man-caves to nations - its spatiality - on public transport as much as in residences - and its temporality - as constant re-creation. This approach flags the contradictory and ambivalent nature of home-making as individual and collective projects of identity. In a world marked by a ''crisis of home'', this collection examines the relation between agency and power as we struggle for coherence and continuity.'Greg Noble, University of Western Sydney, Australia Asking us to think differently about the home, this book challenges the notion of a closed-off and self-sufficient place and reimagines home to be where we find our connections to others and the world. By exploring home in relation to the figure of the stranger and public space, as well as with a focus on practices of dwelling and materialities, the authors demonstrate that thinking differently about home advances our understanding of belonging as a social process in which we are all implicated.Interrelated chapters challenge traditional, convenient and stereotypical notions of 'home'. Specifically, the book provides a state-of-the-art cross-disciplinary conceptual framework; contributes to national and international discussions on the changing economic and social meanings of home; and provides analysis of areas and locations that are rarely thought of as involved in 'home-making', e.g. man caves; mobile homes; the home in public; senses of home; the migrant citizen/stranger. This book is an essential resource for those involved in housing policy, issues around migration policies and to researchers working in other arenas such as cultural heritage. It is of particular interest to academics of sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, and those whose research investigates questions of domestic space and the politics of home.Contributors include: A. Ålund, J. Browitt, A. Deslandes, N. Ebert, M. Giuffre, O. Hamilton, E. Honeywill, J. Humphry, L. Kings, J. Lloyd, Y. Musharbash, S. Redshaw, C.-U. Schierup, A. Stebbing, S. Supski, I. Vanni Accarigi, E. VastaTrade Review'Justine Lloyd and Ellie Vasta have done a fantastic job as editors in bringing together a group of critically minded scholars to write chapters on the meanings, practices and representations of home during a period of rapid social change. I have no doubt that Reimagining Home in the 21st Century will make an important contribution to academic scholarship by showcasing the considerable insights that can be achieved by interdisciplinary forms of inquiry.' --(Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania, Australia)'From ''man caves'' to commuter cars, ''smart houses'' to convivial kitchens, Reimagining Home in the 21st Century provides a rich and engaging window into the diverse lifeworlds that characterise the 21st Century.' --(Katherine Brickell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)'Reimagining Home in the 21st Century is a timely book that addresses key themes of 21st century life; about where we belong, how we shape our present, imagine our future and are shaped by the mobility and migrations of those both close to us and more culturally distant. An invaluable contribution that sheds light on both the way we live now and the concepts we use to make sense of our time.' --(Michael Keith, University of Oxford, UK)Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Reimagining Home in the 21st Century Justine Lloyd and Ellie Vasta PART I Home-making and belonging: The Figure of the Stranger 2. Reflections on home and identity in late-modernity Norbert Ebert 3. The migrant ‘stranger’ at home: ‘Australian’ shared Values and the National Imaginary Ellie Vasta PART II Home-making and belonging: Practices of dwelling 4. The transnational matrifocal home among Cape Verdean migrant women: The case of Santo Antão Island Martina Giuffrè 5. Country’, ‘community’ and ‘growth town’: three spatio-temporal snapshots of Warlpiri experiences of home Yasmine Musharbash 6. Mobile my spaces: home in commuter cars, working vehicles and contrasting dwelling for backpackers in campervans and homeless car sleepers Sarah Redshaw 7. Without house or home? Understanding homelessness as dwelling Adam Stebbing PART III Conditions of homeliness/unhomeliness: Publicness 8. At home in public: The work of mobility and anti-racist mobile witnessing practices Justine Lloyd 9. Home-making: youth and urban unrest in multiethnic Sweden Aleksandra Ålund, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Lisa Kings 10. The coming home of postindustrial society Evelyn Honeywill 11. Staying in place: meanings, practices and the regulation of publicness in Sydney’s Martin Place Ann Deslandes and Justine Humphry PART IV Conditions and practices of homeliness/unhomeliness: Materialities 12. Senses of home Olivia Hamilton 13. Transcultural objects, transcultural homes Ilaria Vanni Accarigi 14. The garage as vernacular museum: reading contemporary masculinity through ‘man caves’ Jeff Browitt 15. Kitchen as home: Shifting meanings Sian Supski Index

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Book SynopsisIn the first major work to take the home as a center of analysis for global social problems, experts from a variety of fields reveal the multidimensional reality of the home and its role in societies worldwide. This unique book serves as a basis for action by proposing global legislative, political and institutional initiatives with the home in mind. The multidisciplinary and integrative approach taken by this book avoids simplistic accounts of the home, studies the value of the home, the service it offers, and its contribution to the wellbeing and prosperity of communities. Reviewing its internal functions and external relationships, the authors connect the themes of family, housing, income and wealth, community, relationships, family policies, socioeconomic setting, culture and history from across the world. Academics studying issues such as family, housing, public and social policy, sociology, urban studies and poverty will benefit from the range of insights this book offers into what the home means worldwide. Policymakers, social organizations and specialized networks working in the areas of family, education, poverty and housing will greatly benefit from the insight and breadth of this research.Contributors include: A. Argandoña, M. Bertolaso, H. Burns, A. d'Entremont, M. do Ceu Patrão Neves, E.P. Davis, R. Lastra, A. Marcos, M. Regnerus, S. ZamagniTrade Review'The home is an institution at the base of society which impacts individuals' outcomes and decisions across the life course, from child developmental outcomes to work and retirement decisions. This book is a collection of contributions explaining the role that the home plays in modern society. Its multidisciplinary perspective will enable readers to enlarge their views on the concept of home wearing the hat of a geographer, economist, philosopher, sociologist and medical scientist.' --Cheti Nicoletti, University of York, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Bryan Sanderson, Home Renaissance Foundation Foreword Carlos Cavallé, Social Trends Institute Introduction Antonio Argandoña 1. The home: Multidisciplinary reflections Antonio Argandoña PART I Philosophy 2. What is a home? On the intrinsic nature of a home Alfredo Marcos and Marta Bertolaso 3. Self and others: Home as a cradle of a non-violent relationship Maria do Céu Patrão Neves Part II Health Sciences 4. The impact of the home environment on children’s health and cognitive and social development Sir Harry Burns PART III Sociology 5. Reproducing homes: Intergenerational transmission of marriage and relationship legacy Mark Regnerus PART IV Economics 6. The family and economic theorizing Stefano Zamagni 7. Pension provision, lifetime financial sustainability, care and dignity in old age: Legal and economic issues E. Philip Davis and Rosa M. Lastra PART V Geography 8. Spatial relationality and domesticity: Reality and functions of the home from a human geography perspective Alban d’Entremont Index

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Book SynopsisThis impressive research collection discusses the most important contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field of poverty measurement. It analyses what constitutes poverty and associated poverty measures, as well as conceptual and empirical approaches to set poverty lines for both national and international settings. The research collection also discusses national and international income poverty measures, multidimensional poverty indices, and ways to capture poverty dynamics.Trade Review‘This collection of landmark works on the concepts and methods for measuring poverty will be highly valuable to students and scholars in the field. Augmented by an original introduction by S. Klasen, a most prominent contributor to the analysis of poverty, it provides an illuminating synthesis that will remain a key resource for years.’ -- Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton University, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Stephan Klasen PART I CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES IN A SINGLE DIMENSION 1. Buhong Zheng (1993), ‘An Axiomatic Characterization of the Watts Poverty Index’, Economic Letters, 42 (1), 81–86 2. Amartya Sen (1976), ‘Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement’, Econometrica, 44 (2), March, 219–31 3. James Foster, Joel Greer and Erik Thorbecke (1984), ‘Notes and Comments: A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures’, Econometrica, 52 (3), May, 761–66 4. A.B. Atkinson (1970), ‘On the Measurement of Poverty’, Econometrica, 55 (4), July, 749–64 5. Amartya Sen (1983), ‘Poor, Relatively Speaking’, Oxford Economic Papers, 35 (2), 153–69 [17] 6. Peter Townsend (1985), ‘A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty–A Rejoinder to Professor Amartya Sen’, Oxford Economic Papers, 37 (4), December, 659–68 7. Amartya Sen (1985), ‘A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty: A Reply to Peter Townsend', Oxford Economic Papers, 37 (4), December, 669–76 8. Lawrence Haddad and Ravi Kanbur (1990), ‘How Serious is the Neglect of Intra–Household Inequality?’, Economic Journal, 100 (402), September, 866–81 PART II EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO NATIONAL INCOME POVERTY MEASUREMENT 9. Mollie Orshansky (1965), ‘Counting the Poor: Another Look at the Poverty Profile’, Social Security Bulletin, 28 (1), January, 3–29 10. Joel Greer and Erik Thorbecke (1986), ‘A Methodology for Measuring Food Poverty Applied to Kenya’, Journal of Development Economics, 24 (1), November, 59–74 11. Martin Ravallion and Benu Bidani (1994), ‘How Robust is a Poverty Profile’, World Bank Economic Review, 8 (1), January, 75–102 12. Martin Ravallion and Binayak Sen (1996), ‘When Method Matters: Monitoring Poverty in Bangladesh,’ Economic Development and Cultural Change, 44 (4), July, 761–92 13. Victor R. Fuchs (1967), ‘Redefining Poverty and Redistributing Income’, Public Interest, 8, Summer, 88–95 14. Arie Kapetyn, Peter Kooreman and Rob Willemse (1988), ‘Some Methodological Issues in the Implementation of Subjective Poverty Definitions’, Journal of Human Resources, 23 (2), Spring, 222–42 15. Menno Pradhan and Martin Ravallion (2000), ‘Measuring Poverty Using Qualitative Perceptions of Consumption Adequacy’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 82 (3), August, 462–71 16. Brigitte Buhmann, Lee Rainwater, Guenther Schmaus and Timothy M. Smeeding (1988), ‘Equivalence Scales, Well-being, Inequality and Poverty: Sensitivity Estimates Across Ten Countries Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database’, Review of Income and Wealth, 34 (2), 115–42 17. Jean Drèze and P.V. Srinivasan (1997), ‘Widowhood and Poverty in Rural India: Some Inferences From Household Survey Data’, Journal of Development Economics, 54 (2), December, 217–34 18. Daniel T. Slesnick (1993), ‘Gaining Ground: Poverty in the Postwar United States’, Journal of Political Economy, 101 (1), February, 1–38 PART III EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL INCOME POVERTY MEASUREMENT 19. Montek S. Ahluwalia, Nicholas G. Carter and Hollis B. Chenery (1979), ‘Growth and Poverty in Developing Countries’, Journal of Development Economics, 6 (3), 299–341 20. Martin Ravallion, Gaurav Datt and Dominique van de Walle (1991), Quantifying Absolute Poverty in the Developing World', Review of Income and Wealth, 37 (4), December, 21. Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion (2001), ‘How did the World’s Poorest Fare in the 1900s?’, Review of Income and Wealth, 47 (3), September, 283–300 22. Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion (2010), ‘The Developing World is Poorer than we Thought, but no Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (4), November, 1577–625 23. Angus Deaton (2010), ‘Price Indexes, Inequality and the Measurement of World Poverty’, American Economic Review, 100 (1), March, 5–34 24. Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Shaohua Chen, Andrew Dabalen, Yuri Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, Dean Jolliffe, Ambar Narayan, Espen Beer Prydz, Ana Revenga, Prem Sangraula, Umar Serajuddin and Nobuo Yoshida (2016), ‘A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012: Data Issues, Methdology and Initial Results’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 14 (2), June, 141–72 25. Stephan Klasen, Tatyana Krivobokova, Friederike Greb, Rahul Lahoti, Syamsul Hidayat Pasaribu and Manuel Wisenfarth (2016),‘International Income Poverty Measurement: Which Way Now?’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 14 (2), June, 199–225 26. Sanjay Reddy and Rahul Lahoti (2016), ‘$1.90 a Day: What Does it Say? The New International Poverty Line’, New Left Review, 97, January–February, 106–27 27. Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen (2011) ‘Weakly Relative Poverty’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (4), November, 1251–261 28. Martin Ravallion (2016), ‘Toward Better Global Poverty Measures’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 14 (2), June, 227–48 PART IV CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY MEASUREMENT 29. François Bourguignon and Sayta R. Chakravarty (2003), ‘The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 1 (1), April, 25–49 30. Satya R. Chakravarty and Conchita D’Ambrosio (2006), ‘The Measurement of Social Exclusion’, Review of Income and Wealth, 52 (3), September, 377–98 31. D. Jayaraj and S. Subramanian (2010), ‘A. Chakravarty – D’Ambrosio View of Multidimensional Deprivation: Some Estimates for India’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLX (6), February, 53–65 32. Sabina Alkire and James Foster (2011), ‘Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement’, Journal of Public Economics, 95 (7–8), August, 476–87 33. Jean-Yves Duclos, David E. Sahn and Stephen D. Younger (2006) ‘Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons’, Economic Journal, 116 (514), October, 943–68 PART V EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY MEASUREMENT 34. Stephan Klasen (2000), ‘Measuring Poverty and Deprivation in South Africa’, Review of Income and Wealth, 46 (1), March, 33–58 35. Sabine Alkire and Maria Emma Santos (2014), ‘Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index’, World Development, 59, July, 251–74 36. Martin Ravallion (2011) ‘On Multidimensional Indices of Poverty’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 9 (2), March, 235–48 37. Nicole Rippin (2016), ‘Multidimensional Poverty in Germany: A Capability Approach’, Forum for Social Economics, 45 (2–3), 230–55 PART VI POVERTY DYNAMICS: CHRONIC AND TRANSITIONAL POVERTY, VULNERABILITY 38. Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion (1998), ‘Transient Poverty in Postreform Rural China’, Journal of Comparative Economics, 26 (2), June, 338–57 39. Ethan Ligon and Laura Schechter (2003), ‘Measuring Vunerability’, Economic Journal’, 113 (486), March, C95–C102 40. Felix Povel (2015), ‘Measuring Exposure to Downside Risk with an Application to Thailand and Vietnam’, World Development, 71, July, 4–24 41. Walter Bossert, Satya Chakravarty and Conchita D’ Ambrosio (2012), ‘Poverty and Time’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 10 (2), June, 145–62 Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Housing issues have become a defining feature of our time. The capacity to affordably, securely, and sustainably house a growing, urbanizing population has become a pressing issue for policy makers worldwide. A Research Agenda for Housing sets the tone for debates relating to housing, featuring cutting-edge research from leading and emerging scholars. This impressive work seeks to understand the complexity of housing through the lens of its most pertinent debates. Using examples and case studies from around the world, the contributors tackle housing rights, financialization, mortgage markets, public housing, sustainability, and affordability policies, considering housing in its larger societal and historical contexts. With a strong focus on the practical implications of housing research, this diverse book takes a critical approach to housing research, seeking to dissect and understand the nuances of homeownership, renting, liveability and vulnerability in the 21st century. Featuring a broad summary of the state of knowledge of housing, this book is vital reading for both established scholars and graduates of urban studies and planning in need of an overview of the current state of housing research. Public policy makers from across the world will also benefit from the policy implications and recommendations provided by the contributors.Trade Review‘This work clearly illustrates the interconnectedness between global market forces and local housing conditions and is essential reading for housing and planning students and academics wanting a contemporary overview of housing research.’ -- Ruth Lucas, Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal‘This is a deceptively small volume packed with a lot of ideas. While I am eager to agree that housing touches all aspects of human societies the challenge of tackling such a broad number of issues over such a variety of geographic regions is formidable. One of Moos’s stated goals is to leave the reader “with a sense of the complexity of housing as a fruitful area for future research” and I think the collection of essays certainly achieves that goal. Public policymakers could benefit from his recommendations on housing rights, financialization and mortgage markets, social or public housing, sustainability, and affordability.’ -- Stephanie Sweeney, Journal of Urban Affairs‘In A Research Agenda for Housing, editor Markus Moos bring together contributors to illustrate and examine the major theoretical, analytical and empirical developments in the housing field, showing housing to be a complex area and an essential priority for public policy. Offering useful analytical tools and evidence-based, interdisciplinary research, this collection will be a key resource for housing researchers.’ -- Valesca Lima, LSE Review'The housing question has come back as a major issue in our so-called advanced economies. High-income households have a vast choice while the traditional middle classes have been losing options at a rapidly growing pace. In A Research Agenda for Housing, Markus Moos brings together a strong group of experts who engage the subject and shows us options that we must pursue if we are to ensure a reasonable housing market for a majority of households. A must read!' --Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, US, author of Expulsions'The contributors to this volume provide an extremely important interdisciplinary perspective to one of the most important social, economic, and public policy questions of our time - how to provide decent shelter to the masses of people who cannot purchase it in the private market. They look at the question through the lens of international comparisons, identifying causes and some approaches to addressing it, bearing in mind that housing is inseparable from general issues of the capitalist political economy.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, author of The Just City'This collection of essays offers a very welcome, creative and novel take on the contemporary housing question. The editor correctly identifies housing as being pivotal to the shaping of the political events and economic vicissitudes of the early 21st-century. A provocative and engaging read with a good mix of established and new scholars.' --Ray Forrest, University of Bristol, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Housing Today Markus Moos PART II HOUSING IN THE 21ST CENTURY 2. The Right to Housing Jessie Hohmann 3. Housing and Financialization Manuel B. Aalbers 4. Affordability and Housing Policy in the World’s Cities: Excavating the Global Housing Bubble Alan Walks 5. Affordable Homeownership and Mortgage Markets in an International Context Piyush Tiwari 6. How Urban Regimes Produce and Manage Informality: Insights from Three Different Cases of Informal Housing Pietro Calogero, Jennifer Day, and Neeraj Dangol PART III HOUSING TRENDS AND POLICIES 7. One Policy, Two Paths: The Development of a Chinese National Housing Policy and its Implementation in Chongqing and Shenzhen Ka Ling Cheung, Jennifer Day, Hao Wu, and Richard Tomlinson 8. Social Mix and the Death of Public Housing Martine August 9. Housing Vulnerable Populations in Australia and Beyond Debbie Faulkner, Selina Tually, and Victoria Cornell 10. Sustainable Housing Sarah Godfrey, Jennifer Dean, and Kristen Regier 11. The Regional and Local Dynamics of Life Course and Housing Rik Damhuis, Wouter van Gent, Cody Hochstenbach, and Sako Musterd PART IV HOUSING FUTURES 12. What’s Livable? Comparing Concepts and Metrics for Housing and Livability Nathanael Lauster 13. Sharing Housing: Is There an App for That? Jake Wegmann 14. Innovations in Affordability Policies Nicole Gurran Index

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Book SynopsisThis dynamic Research Handbook explores key perspectives, topics and methodologies used to understand housing, the home and society. Pairing social theory with a broad range of case studies from the Global North and South, it offers a unique insight into the field.

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Book SynopsisThis timely book provides readers with a detailed comparative survey of tenure innovation and diversification in Europe. Alternative and intermediate tenures, i.e., housing options beyond tenancy and homeownership, are examined as remedies to address the growing European housing crisis.Starting with an introduction to national housing systems and their development, contributions from experienced legal academics explain the potential of alternative and intermediate tenures used in individual countries. Divided into groups reflecting not only geographical vicinity, but also roughly similar types of welfare states, the book examines 14 jurisdictions all over Europe. Taken together, the national models constitute what can be labelled a European acquis of housing options. The final comparative evaluation focuses on selecting best practice models, potentially capable of being transferred to, and used beneficially in, other countries.Addressing the European Housing Crisis will be of great interest for academics in European law, property law and public administration and management. It will also be a key resource for policy makers and experts associated with political institutions, civil society and housing associations, both at European and national levels.Trade Review‘This very valuable text develops an informative taxonomy within which it compares the growing range of innovations in intermediate tenures that have been developed in the face of the worsening housing crisis across Europe. It is an invaluable reference text not just for lawyers but for those working across the fields of housing economics and finance.’ -- Christine Whitehead, London School of Economics, UK‘This far reaching book really widens the scope of current comparative housing research by offering – within a common analytical frame – a detailed discussion on the whole repertoire of regulations for various housing settings, beyond homeownership and rentals, in 14 European countries. It is a must-read for comparative researchers.’ -- Teresio Poggio, University of Trento, Italy‘In the face of the current housing crisis in most EU countries, alternative and intermediate tenures below and between rent and ownership are in the focus of both researchers and policy makers. When searching for new models for better accommodating individual housing needs, it is highly recommended to examine previous experiences in other countries. The comparative legal groundwork laid in this book provides an excellent basis to rethink and complement the national portfolios of housing tenures. A powerful testimony to the Europeanisation of housing studies!’ -- Steffen Sebastian, University of Regensburg, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvi Tenure reform as a means to address the European housing crisis 1 Christoph U. Schmid 1 Spain 7 Sergio Nasarre-Aznar and Héctor Simón Moreno 2 Portugal 37 Maria Olinda Garcia and Dulce Lopes 3 Italy 54 Elena Bargelli and Alessandro Dinisi 4 France 79 Patrick Posocco 5 Belgium 95 Vincent Sagaert and Benjamin Verheye 6 The Netherlands 119 Michel Vols 7 England 139 Mark Jordan 8 Ireland 161 Padraic Kenna 9 Germany 183 Tobias Pinkel, Annika Schulenberg, Valerie Müller and Christoph U. Schmid 10 Austria 219 Helmut Ofner 11 Poland 238 Magdalena Habdas 12 Croatia 266 Tatjana Josipović 13 Sweden 301 Ola Jingryd, Martin Grander and Peter Palm 14 Finland 321 Tommi Ralli 15 Comparative report: best practices in the European acquis of housing tenures 355 Christoph U. Schmid Index

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Book SynopsisThis dynamic Handbook unpacks the entanglements between the two notions of home and migration, which illuminate the lived experiences of (in)voluntary mobilities and the contested terrain of inclusion and belonging.Drawing on cross-disciplinary contributions from leading international scholars, the Handbook advances research on the social study of home in relation to migration, refugee, displacement, and diaspora studies. It investigates the interplay between the notions of house and home, examining the relevance of home as a category of both analysis and practice. With a global and comparative range of case studies and examples, chapters bridge disciplines in unprecedented ways, exploring the existential, epistemological, and political implications of home for those struggling for it from afar and from the margins.Synthesising and systematising state-of-the-art research on home and migration, this groundbreaking Handbook will prove an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and researchers of sociology, anthropology, geography, and architecture. Practitioners and volunteers involved in social welfare, housing, informal social support, and mobilisations, for or by migrants and refugees, will also find this book of importance.Trade Review‘By focusing on home and its mutual entanglements with migration, this book brings fresh eyes to migration studies. What do voluntary and forced migrants lose with respect to home and how do they rebuild and transform it along their way? How does the ability to recreate the emotional, sensorial, and cultural dimensions of home vary across groups and what impact does this have on migrants’ ability to achieve some measure of inclusion and belonging? Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of eminent scholars from around the world, this book provides valuable insights and nuances our understanding of contemporary migration.’ -- Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, US‘The home can seem so solid and fixed. But seen from the perspective of migration it is suddenly set in motion as the vehicle that might take the paths of homing or displacement, home making and unmaking, security and fragility, memory and affectivity. At the same time, a focus on the home as the point of reference for all these dynamic processes provides an ideal position from which to gain an empathetic grounding in the lived experience of migrants. With over fifty chapters, this volume is able to provide an unprecedented sense of the diversity of these experiences and the multiple contexts that need to be considered for a more comprehensive assessment of this relationship between migration and home.’ -- Daniel Miller, University College London, UK‘This impressive and comprehensive Handbook is the culmination of extensive work on the meaning of home directed by the editor. For migrants and refugees, feeling at home is a pressing and sometimes existential issue but, as the rich array of contributors show, creating a reassuring home in our crisis-ridden world is a problem we all face.’ -- Robin Cohen, University of Oxford, UK‘This exceptionally rich book about home and the activity of homing among migrants, empirically and theoretically wide-ranging, is bound to establish itself as the standard reference in the field. It also points ahead towards new conceptualisations of the home, certainly with respect to people on the move, but also in a general sense. Through its focus on people to whom the home is a precarious resource which has to be created, sometimes from scratch, the book raises fundamental questions about social life and belonging.’ -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo, Norway‘This comprehensive, insightful, beautiful collection opens a window into the multiple, everyday meanings of “home” under conditions of migration and displacement. Exceptionally well-integrated, the collection invites us to a fascinating conversation about home across vast geographies, disciplines, and methods. Indispensable reading for anyone who cares about home.’ -- Cecilia Menjivar, University of California, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: home and migration – setting the terms of belonging and place-making on the move 1 Paolo Boccagni PART I BACKGROUNDS 2 Migrants of identity: cosmopolitan actors at home in the world 30 Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson 3 Home and forced migration 42 Giorgia Donà, Cathrine Brun and Anita Fábos 4 Housing studies, migration and home 55 Keith Jacobs 5 The migrant house: the meaning of its architecture and materiality 66 Iris Levin 6 Towards a social history of home and migration 77 Rosa Salzberg 7 Moving toward home away from home: a cultural psychology perspective on home and migration 90 Mariann Märtsin and Annela Samuel 8 Between longing and belonging: home, homemaking and diasporas 100 Jayani Bonnerjee 9 The paradox of home: an interview with Les Back 112 PART II QUESTIONS 10 Senses of home in the modern world 121 Gordon Mathews 11 Temporalities of migration and homemaking 131 Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Franchesca Morais 12 Governing the state as a home: domopolitics and migration 145 William Walters 13 Settler colonialism and home 158 Ariel Handel and Hagar Kotef 14 Home and the politics of location and displacement 170 Halleh Ghorashi 15 On the biopsychosocial impacts of extreme domicide 183 Bree Akesson 16 Home, nativism and migration 195 Jan Willem Duyvendak 17 Moving from home to accommodation – a conceptual alternative for the historical manipulation of home for violent and exclusionary ends: an interview with Barak Kalir 206 PART III LIVED EXPERIENCE 18 Home and homemaking in local and transnational family lives 215 Angelie Marilla and Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot 19 Feeling at home: migrant homemaking through the senses 228 Diana Mata-Codesal 20 Making home through memories and ritualised social practices 239 Anastasia Christou 21 Moving bricks: strategies for a genealogy of housing, migration, and social movements 252 Araceli Masterson-Algar and Edward Jackiewicz 22 Home and homemaking during refugee journeys 265 Elina Paju, Lena Näre and Paula Merikoski 23 Migration, home, and homemaking in contemporary visual art 279 Helen Underhill 24 Fictions of home: contemporary Palestinian narratives of migration 291 Yasmine Shamma 25 Religion, immigration, and homemaking: an interview with Peter Kivisto 304 PART IV SCALES AND MATERIALITIES 26 The importance of the housing market for the housing opportunities of immigrants 313 Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen and Hans Skifter Andersen 27 Diasporic housing and the ‘valuing’ of home 328 Lauren Wagner 28 Migrants’ homemaking practices in shared housing 338 Zahra Nasreen 29 Refugee housing and homing: negotiating self and humanity 350 Anne Sigfrid Grønseth 30 The works of homemaking: migration, domestic materiality, and everyday life 365 Marta Vilar Rosales 31 Scaling down migrant homemaking: home possessions and the embodied experience of home 377 Anna Pechurina 32 A (dis)connected homescape: the promise, limits, and paradox of migrants’ homemaking practices in the digital age 388 Earvin Charles Cabalquinto and Xinyu Zhao PART V DIFFERENCES AND INEQUALITIES 33 Gendering home and migration 400 Annabelle Wilkins 34 Migration and home in research with children and young people: story, participation, agency 411 Marta Moskal 35 Homemaking and cohousing by postcolonial migrants in later life 426 Louise Meijering and Ajay Bailey 36 Making home at the borders of citizenship: migrants, home, and (il)legality 438 Paola Bonizzoni, Enrico Gargiulo, and Maurizio Artero 37 Home and homemaking practices among skilled Indian migrants 453 Ajay Bailey 38 Polish multiple migrants and their narratives of home and homemaking over time 466 Aleksandra Winiarska, Justyna Salamońska, Marta Kluszczyńska and Aneta Krzyworzeka-Jelinowska 39 Home, migration, and Roma people in Europe 481 Stefano Piemontese and Gaja Maestri 40 Why (and how) home matters in the “stay-at-home” order and beyond 493 Tasoulla Hadjiyanni 41 Homemaking and mobilities among LGBT people: an interview with Andrew Gorman-Murray 507 PART VI METHODS 42 Unveiling the (trans)national in the home space: an auto-ethnography 515 Magdalena Nowicka 43 Narrating home: oral histories as documents and practices of homing 529 Alexander Freund 44 Visual research and participatory research methods 543 Charishma Ratnam 45 Researching home through the narratives of displaced people 554 Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia 46 Exploring home and migration through quantitative research: enlarging scales, unsettling questions 567 Paolo Boccagni, Cristiano Santinello and Bernardo Armanni PART VII BEYOND THE WEST 47 Between home and accommodation: migration and housing in the Arab region between circular ideals and diasporic lives 581 Samuli Schielke 48 Migrant homemaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: from self-help housing to conspicuous construction 595 Julia Pauli 49 Norms and forms of the remittance landscape in Latin America 609 Christien Klaufus 50 House, home, and homemaking in post-Soviet migratory contexts: insights from research in Russia and Japan 621 Ksenia Golovina, Anna Pechurina, Anna Rocheva, and Evgeni Varshaver 51 Making sense of family and home: multi-generational immigrant families from China to New Zealand 635 Liangni Sally Liu and Guanyu Jason Ran 52 Remittances and transnational housing among the Indian diaspora: home as a project 647 S. Irudaya Rajan and Anand P. Cherian 53 Conclusion: on the futures of home and migration 660 Paolo Boccagni Index

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Book SynopsisThe Right to Buy is the most controversial housing policy of the last 30 years, but it is also the most successful. Unlike the many studies that have focused on the costs of the policy and sought to show its negative impact, this book seeks to understand the Right to Buy on its own terms. It explains how the policy links with a coherent ideology based on self-interest and the care of things close to us - instead of a policy that sought to do things for people, the Right to Buy allowed people to do things for themselves.Trade Review"...invigorates the reader and provides a fresh challenge to many of the assumptions around the RTB." Rebecca Edwards in International Planning Studies"When I showed Mrs Thatcher figures suggesting she should give away all council housing to tenants her instant reply was 'people will not value them unless they pay at least something for them'. These and many more memories of RTB came flooding back as I read King's exceptionally good book." John Blundell, formerly Director of the Institute of Economic AffairsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Owning things; What Mrs Thatcher did; What happened next; What is wrong with it?; What does it tell us?; Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of Britain as a fully fledged home-owning society at the end of the 20th century has major implications for how houses are used not just as a home but as an asset. The key debate in this important and timely book is whether social policy and people's homes should be so closely connected, especially when housing markets are so volatile. It will be essential reading for all students and practitioners of housing and those concerned with how social and public policy is being shaped in the 21st century.Trade Review'Stuart Lowe's The Housing Debate takes a refreshingly broad view of housing and welfare. Rather than a balanced introduction for students to current debates around housing and social policy, Lowe has a clear case to make.' - Jake Eliot in Citizen's Income Newsletter"Very clear and concise overview of key developments in housing policy. Provides an excellent introduction to housing studies." Tony Manzi, University of Westminster"The Housing Debate ... provides readers with a solid historical, geographic and theoretical foundation." British Politics and Policy at the LSE blog, March 2012"Concise and very clear discussion of contemporary and historical developments in housing policy" Tony Manzi, University of Westminster"We are increasingly having to rely on housing wealth to fund many aspects of our life including retirement when recent experience of the housing market shows that this can be a risky strategy. This book offers a timely re-assessment of the role of housing in social policy. " David Clapham, Cardiff University"By giving us both the longterm and the big picture Stuart Lowe illuminates both the importance of housing to wider debates about welfare and the divides and contradictions inherent in today's housing debates." Caroline Hunter, University of York“In this highly readable and well-informed text, Stuart Lowe makes a compelling case for the central role played by housing in modern welfare state regimes...a key resource for students of social policy, economics and housing studies. Overall, it represents a major contribution to housing studies and to the wider welfare state literature.” Journal of Social PolicyTable of ContentsThe foundations; The idea of housing policy: the crisis of the late-Victorian housing market; The birth of the home-owning society: the interwar years (1918-39); Home-ownership comes of age (the post-war decades (1945-79); The post-industrial economy and housing; Housing and welfare states; The globalisation of the mortgage market;Towards asset-based welfare states; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisFor the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructuring countryside. The rural housing question is an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland. It analyses a range of topics: from attitudes to rural development, economic change, land use, planning and counter-urbanisation; through retirement and ageing, leisure consumption, lifestyle shifts and homelessness; to public and private house building, private and public renting and community initiatives. Across this spectrum of concerns, it attempts to isolate the fundamental tensions that give the rural housing question an intractable quality. The book is aimed at policy makers, researchers, students and anyone with an interest in the future of the British countryside.Trade Review"...this book is prescient in the nature of its recommendations and should be considered required reading in the context of current policy developments." Tom Moore in Housing Studies Journal"This important contribution to the literature....highlights key themes and public policy choices within an important aspect of housing policy specific to rural regions in Britain." David.W.Marcouiller, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USATable of ContentsContents: Part one: Dissecting the rural housing question: Introduction; The British countryside: nostalgia, romanticism and intervention; 'Protect and consume': understanding the orthodoxy of planning response; The components of the rural housing question; Part two: Components of the rural housing question: The existing policy framework; Planning and land for housing (Supply); Private house building (Supply); Planning and the rural economy (Local Demand); Migration and 'adventitious purchasers' (Demand); Second homes and recreational pressure; Retirement and ageing; Intervening to 'protect' local interests and promote local needs; Planning and affordable housing; Social housing in rural areas; The Private Rented Sector (PRS); Expanding low-cost home ownership; Rural homelessness; Community initiative; Part three: Answering the rural housing question: Seeking answers from overseas; Reviewing the evidence; Working with communities; Challenging 'protect and consume'.

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Book SynopsisFor the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructuring countryside. The rural housing question is an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland. It analyses a range of topics: from attitudes to rural development, economic change, land use, planning and counter-urbanisation; through retirement and ageing, leisure consumption, lifestyle shifts and homelessness; to public and private house building, private and public renting and community initiatives. Across this spectrum of concerns, it attempts to isolate the fundamental tensions that give the rural housing question an intractable quality. The book is aimed at policy makers, researchers, students and anyone with an interest in the future of the British countryside.Trade Review"...this book is prescient in the nature of its recommendations and should be considered required reading in the context of current policy developments." Tom Moore in Housing Studies Journal"This important contribution to the literature....highlights key themes and public policy choices within an important aspect of housing policy specific to rural regions in Britain." David.W.Marcouiller, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USATable of ContentsContents: Part one: Dissecting the rural housing question: Introduction; The British countryside: nostalgia, romanticism and intervention; 'Protect and consume': understanding the orthodoxy of planning response; The components of the rural housing question; Part two: Components of the rural housing question: The existing policy framework; Planning and land for housing (Supply); Private house building (Supply); Planning and the rural economy (Local Demand); Migration and 'adventitious purchasers' (Demand); Second homes and recreational pressure; Retirement and ageing; Intervening to 'protect' local interests and promote local needs; Planning and affordable housing; Social housing in rural areas; The Private Rented Sector (PRS); Expanding low-cost home ownership; Rural homelessness; Community initiative; Part three: Answering the rural housing question: Seeking answers from overseas; Reviewing the evidence; Working with communities; Challenging 'protect and consume'.

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Book SynopsisThe housing we live in shapes individual access to jobs, health, well being and communities. There are also substantial differences between generations regarding the type of housing they aspire to live in, their attitudes to housing costs, the nature of their households and their attitudes to different tenures. This important contribution to the literature draws upon research from the UK, Australia and the USA to show how lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market and a greater emphasis on consumption. It also considers how the global financial crisis has differentially affected housing markets across the globe, with variable impacts on the long term housing transitions of different populations.Trade Review"A major contribution to housing studies and to the wider welfare state literature" Journal of Social Policy"The book furthermore illuminates a number of fundamental issues and trends, and lays bare a whole range of underlying causal mechanisms. As such, it has the potential to inspire a stream of future research." International Journal of Housing PolicyTable of ContentsHousing markets and policy in the 21st century; Housing over the life course: housing histories, careers, pathways and transitions; Housing transitions and housing policy:international context and policy transfer; The housing transitions of younger adults; Housing transitions in mid life: consolidation, opportunity and risk; Housing transitions in later life; Housing transitions and disability: A 21st-century phenomenon; Housing transitions, economic restructuring and the marginalised; Conclusion: negotiating the housing market over the next decades.

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Book SynopsisMark Kleinman's new book explains what has happened to housing policy in Europe over the last two decades, and what housing policy can tell us about welfare development more generally over the period. Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe identifies a divergence in housing policy between, on the one hand, the majority of relatively affluent households and, on the other, an impoverished minority. The legal, financial and economic concerns of the well-housed, owner-occupier majority have preoccupied public policy across Europe, with the impoverished minority often badly housed or homeless. In Britain this has been particularly evident with elections won and lost on the level of the mortgage rate rather than the level of housing output, and still less on the level of homelessness.Housing policy occupies a unique place in public policy at the intersection of social with economic policy, involving a mixed economy of welfare. Consequently, Dr Kleinman's study offers insights into the future direction of public policy as a whole, the balance between economic and social goals, and the relative weighting given to free markets and state intervention in a variety of countries.Trade Review'Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe not only provides an insightful perspective on recent trends in housing policy, but is essential reading for anyone concerned with wider debates on convergence or social polarization.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Housing, Welfare and the State 2. Britain: An Anglo-Saxon Housing Policy? 3. France: “Qui dit Marché dit Exclusion” 4. Germany: From Social Market to Free Market 5. Europe: Bringing in the (Super) State? 6. The Wider Context: Welfare Division and Welfare Change 7. Policy Convergence or Policy Collapse? References Index

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Book SynopsisEstates of multi-storey housing present some of the most intractable problems for urban policy. Many attempts to deal with these problems have either failed or presented poor value for money. Shelter is not enough is an up-to-date evaluation of the issues. It traces the development of multi-storey housing in Britain from its early beginnings, to the period from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s when most of the contemporary legacy of estates was built. The problems in use are examined as are the responses of the authorities faced with mounting technical and social difficulties. Drawing on an analysis of past practice, a 'model framework' is defined which can help to create successful approaches for the regeneration of multi-storey housing. From the experience of the development of multi-storey housing in Britain, its problems and attempted solutions, implications are drawn for public policy, and a strategic approach is outlined which can reform the estates and reintegrate them into the mainstream urban environment. Finally, the British experience is placed in a broader context - the parallel problems surrounding multi-storey estates in Europe, and the contribution transformed multi-storey estates might make in creating more sustainable cities in the millennium. This book provides valuable information for all those involved in urban regeneration - academics and students of housing, architecture and urban studies; development officers, designers and others working in the practice of estate regeneration.Trade Review"... the best available synthesis of what we know with certainty and what uncertainties still exist ... provocative ." Urban Studies"With an extensive bibliography, the book is an invaluable overview of the subject, accessible enough for non-housing professionals to be serialised in the 'Guardian'." Housing"... makes an original contribution to an important area of housing policy requiring continuing attention. It combines a useful historical perspective on the contentious issue of multi-storey living in Britain with a detailed examination of public sector motivations and subsequent problems to arise." Professor Michael Carley, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh"... this work should prove invaluable to any team of professionals and residents alike who are approaching a new project of this type." Building DesignTable of ContentsIntroduction; Forming the multi-storey legacy; Politics, economics and housing form; Social stigma and community action; Redeeming the estates; Facets of regeneration; Building a model framework; Prospects for transformation; Ending the estate syndrome; On broader horizons.

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Book SynopsisIssues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity and gender. This book provides an invaluable overview of key issues set in the context of housing. Touching on concerns ranging from minority ethnic housing needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, this broad-ranging study shows how difference is regulated in housing. It deploys a distinctive theoretical perspective which is applicable to other aspects of the welfare state, and bridges the agency/structure divide. Housing, social policy and difference: brings disability, ethnicity and gender into the centre of an analysis of housing policies and practices; offers a new approach to housing, informed by recent theoretical debates about agency, structure and diversity; develops the ideas of 'difference within difference' and 'social regulation'; looks beyond the concerns of postmodernism to create an original account of difference and structure within the welfare state. The book will be an important text for students and researchers in housing, social policy, planning, urban studies, sociology, disability studies, gender studies and ethnic relations. It will also interest practitioners committed to greater equalities of opportunities and a fairer society.Trade Review"... an exceptionally well written and thoughtful book, successfully pulling together for discussion a variety of exclusionary experiences." Housing Studies"... impressive in both its contribution to the theoretical debate and its analysis of the developments in the housing context in the UK and the issues facing policy makers and practitioners." HSA Newsletter "The book amply succeeds in its aim of showing the extent of 'difference' in housing. No one could fail to be impressed by the wealth of evidence that Harrison cites in this regard ... The chapters on social regulation in housing, disability and race deal impressively, and in a most scholarly fashion, with a vast amount of material, and constitute valuable and up-to-date reviews of these topics for housing and social policy students." HSA Newsletter"A new and valuable contribution to the development of theory and its application in specific areas of social diversity and housing. The awareness of the literature and the very wide range of sources is a particular strength." Stuart Cameron, Senior Lecturer in Planning, University of Newcastle"Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Difference within difference; Structural factors and social regulation; Social regulation in housing; Disability and housing; Ethnicity, 'race' and housing; Gender and housing Cathy Davis; The accommodation of difference.

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Book SynopsisIn Britain in the 1990s households containing almost 1.4 million adults and children had their mortgaged home possessed. A far greater number experienced serious mortgage arrears but managed to avoid possession. The emergence of such levels of unsustainable home ownership has consequences for many areas of social and public policy, including: the economy; public health; social security reform; and family policy. This book argues that the emergence of unsustainable owner-occupation is emblematic of broader changes in contemporary society associated with the emergence of what commentators such as Beck and Giddens have characterised as a 'risk society'. Home ownership in a risk society: provides the first systematic overview of the meaning and implications of a body of research work that has hitherto remained largely fragmented; argues that the particular conjunction of events which generated the short-term housing crisis of the early 1990s masked a series of more enduring structural changes which have resulted in unsustainable home ownership becoming a more permanent part of the British socio-economic landscape; uses a wide range of methodological strategies - including in-depth qualitative interviews with adults and children, survey analysis, and the multivariate statistical analysis of large-scale data sets; paints a rich and detailed empirical picture of the causes, socio-economic distribution and social consequences of mortgage arrears and possessions. This broad-ranging book is aimed at students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners with an interest in social policy, sociology, human geography, urban studies, housing studies, public health, economics and finance.Trade Review"... easy to read and provides valuable insights for both academic researchers and policymakers." Journal of Housing and the Built Environment"This book tackles an important group of issues in a coherent way, bringing together recent research evidence and policy debate in one place." Glen Bramley, Professor of Planning and Housing, Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot-Watt University"This book provides a timely, original and important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of 'unsustainable' home ownership. It should be required reading, not only for students and teachers of social policy, but also for policy makers and practitioners alike." Professor Peter Kemp, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow"If any publication is capable of making the government think again about the fatuity of its equity stake suggestions for tenants, it should be this one." AxisTable of ContentsContents: The risks of home ownership; The 'epidemiology' and 'aetiology' of mortgage arrears and possessions; Owner-occupation and the impact of economic transformations; Unsafe safety-nets; The costs of mortgage arrears and possessions; Experiencing mortgage possession; Mortgage arrears and possessions as public health issues; Summary and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThe housing problems of older people in our society are highly topical because of the growing number of retired people in the population and, especially, the yet-to-come increasing number of 'very old' people. Government policies on the care of older people have been forthcoming from Whitehall, but the issue of housing is just beginning to be seriously addressed. This book represents a first attempt at bringing together people from the worlds of architecture, social science and housing studies to look at the future of living environments for an ageing society. Projecting thinking into the future, it asks critical questions and attempts to provide some of the answers. It uniquely moves beyond the issues of accommodation and care to look at the wider picture of how housing can reflect the social inclusion of people as they age. Inclusive housing in an ageing society will appeal to a wide audience - housing, health and social care workers including: housing officers, architects, planners and designers, community regeneration workers, care managers, social workers and social care assistants, registered managers and housing providers, health improvement staff and, of course, current and future generations of older people.Trade Review"... an informative and well-constructed account of many of the key issues. This is a highly useful and accessible book, and will be of considerable interest to policy makers, practitioners and students." Ageing & Society"... a very useful set of papers ... recommended to policy makers, practitioners and students." Journal of Social Policy "... an interesting addition to the library of anyone interested in the misfit between current housing provision and a rapidly ageing population." SPA News"... an impressive overview and discussion of central concepts and ongoing discussions in this field." Housing Studies "... excellent text ... deserves to be read by activists in pensioner forums, by housing and social services officers, and carers alike. Indeed this book should be read by anyone who has an interest in how we should be housing our older people in the coming century." Roof"... essential reading for social policy, health care and housing studies students. It should also be on the 'must have' list for practitioners and policy makers whose work increasingly takes them into the inter-face between health, housing and social care." Moyra Riseborough, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, School of Social Policy, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsContents: Housing an ageing society Sheila M. Peace and Caroline Holland; Part One: Policy and technology debates: From 'special needs' to 'lifestyle choices': articulating the demand for 'third age' housing Julienne Hanson; Lifetime homes Mary Kelly; The politics of accessible housing in the UK Jo Milner and Ruth Madigan; The implications of smart home technologies Malcolm J. Fisk; Dementia and technology Mary Marshall; Part Two: New lives for old?: Integrated segregation? Issues from a range of housing/care environments Brian McGrail, John Percival and Kate Foster; Older people's Co-Housing Communities Maria Brenton; Retirement communities in Britain: a 'third way' for the third age? Judith Phillips, Miriam Bernard, Simon Biggs and Paul Kingston; Shaping everyday life: beyond design Leonie Kellaher; Inclusive housing Caroline Holland and Sheila M. Peace.

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Book SynopsisIssues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity and gender. This book provides an invaluable overview of key issues set in the context of housing. Touching on concerns ranging from minority ethnic housing needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, this broad-ranging study shows how difference is regulated in housing. It deploys a distinctive theoretical perspective which is applicable to other aspects of the welfare state, and bridges the agency/structure divide. Housing, social policy and difference: brings disability, ethnicity and gender into the centre of an analysis of housing policies and practices; offers a new approach to housing, informed by recent theoretical debates about agency, structure and diversity; develops the ideas of 'difference within difference' and 'social regulation'; looks beyond the concerns of postmodernism to create an original account of difference and structure within the welfare state. The book will be an important text for students and researchers in housing, social policy, planning, urban studies, sociology, disability studies, gender studies and ethnic relations. It will also interest practitioners committed to greater equalities of opportunities and a fairer society.Trade Review"... an exceptionally well written and thoughtful book, successfully pulling together for discussion a variety of exclusionary experiences." Housing Studies"... impressive in both its contribution to the theoretical debate and its analysis of the developments in the housing context in the UK and the issues facing policy makers and practitioners." HSA Newsletter "The book amply succeeds in its aim of showing the extent of 'difference' in housing. No one could fail to be impressed by the wealth of evidence that Harrison cites in this regard ... The chapters on social regulation in housing, disability and race deal impressively, and in a most scholarly fashion, with a vast amount of material, and constitute valuable and up-to-date reviews of these topics for housing and social policy students." HSA Newsletter"A new and valuable contribution to the development of theory and its application in specific areas of social diversity and housing. The awareness of the literature and the very wide range of sources is a particular strength." Stuart Cameron, Senior Lecturer in Planning, University of Newcastle"Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Difference within difference; Structural factors and social regulation; Social regulation in housing; Disability and housing; Ethnicity, 'race' and housing; Gender and housing Cathy Davis; The accommodation of difference.

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Book SynopsisAgainst a century-long trend of decline, the private rented sector grew significantly during the 1990s. This book explores why and looks at the consequences for tenants and landlords, as well as the wider implications for housing policy. Written by legal and policy experts, the book brings together, for the first time in over a decade, leading-edge research on the newly deregulated private rented sector. It provides background information about the recent history and development of the private rented sector and explores the changing nature of the sector. The book will be invaluable reading for law, public policy, housing and social policy students. Housing practitioners and policy makers will also find it a stimulating read.Trade Review"I am delighted to welcome a book that focuses on private rented housing and the role it continues to play in the housing market. The issues considered here will be of great interest to policy makers and those thinking about the development of housing law." Martin Partington, Law Commissioner for England and WalesTable of ContentsContents: The new private rented sector David Hughes and Stuart Lowe; Private renting in the 21st century: lessons from the last decade of the 20th century A.D.H. Crook; Housing benefit and social security Steve Wilcox; Rents and returns in the residential lettings market David Rhodes and Peter Kemp; The private rented sector in rural areas Phil Hancock; Rental housing supply in rural Scotland: the role of private landowners Madhu Satsangi; The nature of tenancy relationships: landlords and young people Diane Lister; Unlawful eviction and harassment Jill Morgan; Changing Rooms: the legal and policy implications of a burgeoning student housing market in Leicester Martin Davis and David Hughes; The Scottish system of licensing houses in multiple occupation Hector Currie; Housing conditions in the private rented sector within a market framework A.D.H. Crook; Room for improvement: the impact of the local authority grant system Mike Ellison; New law, new policy David Hughes and Stuart Lowe.

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Book SynopsisThis report charts a supportive project which linked four diverse regeneration programmes in different parts of the UK. By working closely together at all levels, the groups involved in the project improved their strategic understanding and operational approaches. The report highlights the key practical themes of successful regeneration - what works and where - and effective ways of learning from the experiences of others. Best practice in regeneration presents practical options for achieving: · diverse and flexible patterns of housing ownership, standards and tenure to retain stable communities; · residents who are committed to the area as a whole, not just to their own home; · community and economic development to build and sustain local capacity; · partnership working between and within organisations.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Scope; Process; Interventions: Part 1- The Joseph Rowntree Foundation menu; Interventions: Part 2 - Participants' issues; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the changing terrain of ethnic disadvantage in Britain, drawing on up-to-date sources. It goes further than texts that merely describe ethnic inequalities to explore and explain their dynamic nature. It suggests that the increasing diversity of experience among different ethnic groups is a key to understanding continuing and emerging tensions and conflicts. Explaining ethnic differences: provides up to date data and analysis of ethnic diversity and changing patterns of disadvantage in Britain; · covers key areas of social life, including demographic trends, education, employment, housing, health, gender, and policing and community disorder; · is written by leading experts in the field; · addresses issues of urgent public importance in the context of recent community disorder and the resurgence of the far right. · The book is essential reading for policy makers in central and local government; academics, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates in the social sciences; social work, health, education and housing professionals; and criminal justice personnel.Trade Review"... an essential read for anyone interested in 'race' and ethnicity studies, including students, academics and those within policy-making institutions. The book should be read as an introductory text to some of the key issues within the study of race and ethnicity." BSA Network Newsletter"... this volume provides new insights into the factors that shape the lives of nearly seven percent (p.3) of the UK population. As such it will not only provide an interesting and informative reference for researchers who contribute to the literature in this field, but also to policy makers who are working towards reducing inequalities and disadvantages for all ethnic groups." Work, Employment and Society"... lively and engaging... a thought-provoking book, which far from merely describing ethnic inequalities aims to explore and explain them." Ethnic and Racial Studies "This is an excellent text which will prove an invaluable complement to others." Journal of Social Policy"This important new book will do much to enhance our knowledge of the differences as well as the similarities between ethnic minority communities in British society. It brings together a wealth of original research that addresses this important issue from a range of perspectives." John Solomos, Centre for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Department of Sociology, City University, LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ David Mason; Changing ethnic disadvantage: an overview ~ David Mason; The demographic characteristics of people from minority ethnic groups in Britain ~ David Owen; Ethnic differentials in educational performance ~ Tariq Modood; Changing patterns of ethnic disadvantage in employment ~ David Mason; Patterns of and explanations for ethnic inequalities in health ~ James Y. Nazroo; Housing black and minority ethnic communities: diversity and constraint ~ Malcolm Harrison; 'All the women are white, all the blacks are men - but some of us are brave': mapping the consequences of invisibility for black and minority ethnic women in Britain ~ Heidi Safia Mirza; Police lore and community disorder: diversity in the criminal justice system ~ Virinder S. Kalra.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a fresh new approach to the study of housing. It explores the meaning that housing has for individuals and households by examining 'housing pathways'. Housing pathways refer to the varying household forms that individuals experience and the housing routes that they take over time. The book argues that housing has increasingly become a means to an end rather than an end in itself. The end is personal fulfilment and the main task of housing research is to elucidate the links. In this pursuit, the concepts of identity and lifestyle are key. Specifically, the book examines the structure and functioning of households and links this to changing discourses of the family; explores the important interconnections between housing and employment; considers the relationship between people and the physical aspects of a house and its location; looks at housing in terms of lifestyle choice from youth to old age and discusses the implications of the pathways approach for housing policy and future research in the field. The meaning of housing is recommended to anyone researching and studying housing and particularly to those wishing to engage with the new research agenda set out here.Trade Review"The Meaning of Housing is an innovative contribution to what can be described as a broader attempt to diversify and re-theorise the study of housing. Hopefully, it will trigger further research and encourage others to fill the knowledge gaps that Clapham has usefully highlighted and make the case for a pathways approach more persuasively." Journal of Social Policy"Very useful to get students thinking about the place of housing in a wider social, political, and economic context." Jenny Muir, Queen's University Belfast"David Clapham brings a fresh approach to housing studies through the systematic examination of the choices and constraints that create pathways through the housing system. Its combination of insights from theory and empirical research makes The meaning of housing essential reading for students of housing policy." Brian Lund, Principal Lecturer in Social Policy, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsHousing pathways; Households and families; Work; Paying for housing; Houses and homes; Neighbourhoods and communities; Early pathways; Housing pathways in later life; Researching housing pathways.

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