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Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas. Consisting of fifteen specially commissioned chapters, International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness provides comparative material on the cultural, political and policy contexts of rural homelessness, examining the nature and scale of the issue and the complex local geographies of rural homelessness.
At a time of heightened globalization and reductions in welfare states, faithbased organizations are increasingly the source of vital social services. This multidisciplinary book presents original examples and a pan-European perspective to assess the role of faith-based organizations in combating poverty, social exclusion, and general distress in cities across Europe. Looking at how these organizations operate amid European controversies over immigration, integration, and the rise of religiousbased radicalism, this timely collection offers a crucial reference for academics, researchers, and decision-makers across a variety of fields, from sociology and geography to religious studies.
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.
Se busca establecer el estado de la cuestión de la exclusión social y para ello se han establecido tres líneas. La primera, un estudio de la filosofía social sobre los fundamentos de la exclusión social. Segunda, una revisión de algunos estudios acerca de los avances y planes en la inclusión social. Tercera, una revisión de una serie de perfiles y enclaves de exclusión en la que, salvo alguna excepción, se mantiene un doble perspectiva: el diagnóstico de la situación y el análisis de las políticas al respecto.
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Es una reflexión desde la experiencia que plantea alternativas de educación más allá de la escuela, de empleo más allá del trabajo asalariado y los cambios del mercado labora; otra forma de emprender en una economía social y solidaria.
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