Begging Street Politics And Power

Author : Sheba Saeed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317175650

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Begging, Street Politics and Power by Sheba Saeed Pdf

Begging, Street Politics and Power explores the complex phenomenon of begging in the context of two different religions and societies in South Asia. Focusing on India and Pakistan, the book provides an in-depth examination of the religious and secular laws regulating begging along with discussion of the power dynamics involved. Drawing on textual analysis and qualitative field research, the chapters consider the notion of charity within Hinduism and Islam, the transaction of giving and receiving, and the political structures at play in the locations studied. The book engages with the conflicting compassionate and criminal sides of begging and reveals some of the commonalities and differences in religion and society within South Asia. It will be of interest to scholars working across the fields of religious studies, social science, law and Asian studies.

Author : Dean, Hartley
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847425041

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Begging questions by Dean, Hartley Pdf

Begging is widely condemned, but little understood. It is increasingly visible, yet politically controversial. Recent changes in British social security, housing and mental health provision can be seen to have exacerbated the extent of begging in the UK, and its persistence is an indictment of the failures of social policy throughout the Western world. Though begging is intimately linked to issues of street homelessness, mental health, substance abuse and social exclusion, this book specifically focuses on begging as a distinctive form of marginalised economic activity. It looks at: the significance of face-to-face contact between beggars and passers-by; the preoccupation with the classification of beggars; the stigma associated with begging and judgements required by the passer-by; the place of begging in the spectrum of informal economic activity. The book provides a comprehensive overview and will stimulate theoretical, policy and methodological debates, driving forward the research agenda. It is important reading for researchers, academics and students in social policy, social work, sociology, politics and socio-legal studies, and also for social work practitioners and, particularly, policy makers.

Author : Galina M. Yemelianova,Egdūnas Račius
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000686043

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Muslims of Post-Communist Eurasia by Galina M. Yemelianova,Egdūnas Račius Pdf

This book discusses the evolution of state governance of Islam and the nature and forms of local Muslims’ rediscovery of their ‘Muslimness’ across post-communist Eurasia. It examines the effects on the Islamic scene of the political and ideological divergence of Central and South-Eastern Europe from Russia and most of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Of particular interest are the implications of the proliferation of new, ‘global’ interpretations of Islam and their relationship with existing ‘traditional’ Islamic beliefs and practices. The contributions in this book address these issues through an interdisciplinary prism combining history, religious studies/theology, social anthropology, sociology, ethnology and political science. They analyse the greater public presence of Islam in constitutionally secular contexts and offer a critique of the domestication and accommodation of Islam in Europe, comparing these to what has happened in the international Eurasian space. The discussion is informed by the works of such thinkers as Talal Asad, Bryan Turner, Veit Bader, Marcel Maussen and Bassam Tibi, and utilises primary and secondary sources and ethnographic observation. Looking at how collectivities and individuals are defining what it means to be Muslim in a globalised Islamic context, this book will be of great interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Islamic Studies, Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology.

Author : Elbridge Gerry Spaulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : OXFORD:N10623404

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A Resource of War--The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available by Elbridge Gerry Spaulding Pdf

Author : Ciarán McCabe
Publisher : Reappraisals in Irish History
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786941572

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Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland by Ciarán McCabe Pdf

Beggars and begging were ubiquitous features of pre-Famine Irish society, yet have gone largely unexamined by historians. This book explores at length for the first time the complex cultures of mendicancy, as well as how wider societal perceptions of and responses to begging were framed by social class, gender and religion. The study breaks new ground in exploring the challenges inherent in defining and measuring begging and alms-giving in pre-Famine Ireland, as well as the disparate ways in which mendicants were perceived by contemporaries. A discussion of the evolving role of parish vestries in the life of pre-Famine communities facilitates an examination of corporate responses to beggary, while a comprehensive analysis of the mendicity society movement, which flourished throughout Ireland in the three decades following 1815, highlights the significance of charitable societies and associational culture in responding to the perceived threat of mendicancy. The instance of the mendicity societies illustrates the extent to which Irish commentators and social reformers were influenced by prevailing theories and practices in the transatlantic world regarding the management of the poor and deviant. Drawing on a wide range of sources previously unused for the study of poverty and welfare, this book makes an important contribution to modern Irish social and ecclesiastical history. An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.

Author : Stephan Quensel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783658414122

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Witch Politics in Early Modern Europe (1400–1800) by Stephan Quensel Pdf

Why does an entire society believe that there are witches who must be burned? What roles did the emerging 'state', the professions of clerics and jurists, and the public involved play in each case? And how could this project be completed? From a sociological point of view, the findings of recent international research on witches provide a model of a more general, highly ambivalent, 'pastoral' attitude, according to which a shepherd has to care for the welfare of his flock as well as for its erring sheep. The first main part describes the clerical initial situation, which developed the 'Dominican' demonological model of witchcraft on the basis of the still dominant magico-religious mentality in the 15th century. A model, according to the second part of the book, which then in the course of the 16th century in Western Europe increasingly fell into the hands of the not so innocent jurists. From there it developed into a legal witch persecution that realized the early European witch model from the village witch to the mass persecutions to the late child witches. The third part describes how witch persecutions slowly became less important towards the end of the 17th century as a general witchcraft 'politics' game in the transition from a confessional state to a (court) 'civil service' state.

Author : Joe Hermer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509901197

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Policing Compassion by Joe Hermer Pdf

Do you give to someone begging? For centuries, the figure of the beggar has caused public fear, sympathy and confusion. In this book, criminologist Joe Hermer explores how the dilemma of giving to someone begging today has become an unusual site of regulation, public inquiry and law reform. This book investigates why handing pocket change to someone begging is now widely viewed as a gift crime, one that attempts to make the giving public complicit in the policing and control of visibly poor people. Drawing on the historical insight that public feeling is a central problem of policing the vagrant beggar, the author examines how a quirky provincial experiment to stop people giving to beggars morphed into an unlikely movement across England. Hermer ranges widely in his analysis, with discussions of 'diverted giving' schemes, specialised police operations, activist efforts to repeal the Vagrancy Law, and begging-like activities such as busking, Big Issue vending and flag day collections. The author pays particular attention to the Vagrancy Act 1824 and the historic reforms enabled by gift crime regulation to this storied area of criminal law. The consequence, this book argues, is the continuing abandonment of some of the most vulnerable individuals in society through direct appeals to compassion and kindness.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004955915

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The Pioneer Mail and Indian Weekly News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eoin Devereux
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poverty
ISBN : 1860205453

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Devils and Angels by Eoin Devereux Pdf

Exploring how television tells stories about poverty in ideological ways, Devils and Angels examines how poverty is explained on factual, fictional, and fund-raising television.

Author : Brian Lund
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447327080

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Housing Politics in the United Kingdom by Brian Lund Pdf

Affordable housing in the United Kingdom has become an ever more potent issue in recent years, as rapid population growth and a long-term lag in new housing construction have combined to making finding secure, affordable housing difficult for a broad range of people. This book uses insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism, and social constructionism to lay bare the historically entrenched power relationships among markets, planners, and electoral politics that have made this problem seem so intractable.

Author : Elbridge Gerry Spaulding
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375019501

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History of the Legal Tender Paper Money issued during the Great Rebellion by Elbridge Gerry Spaulding Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Author : Craig R. Ducat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062250506

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Constitutional Interpretation: Powers of government by Craig R. Ducat Pdf

Author : Kate Swanson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Indian children
ISBN : 9780820331805

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Begging as a Path to Progress by Kate Swanson Pdf

Examining beggars' organized migration networks, as well as the degree to which children can express agency and fulfill personal ambitions through begging, Swanson argues that Calhuasí, Equador's beggars are capable of canny engagement with the forces of change.

Author : Dana Lee Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781440839238

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Disability and U.S. Politics by Dana Lee Baker Pdf

More than 1 billion people worldwide have a disability, and they are all affected by politics. This two-volume work explores key topics at the heart of disability policy, such as voting, race, gender, age, health care, social security, transportation, abuse, and the environment. Disability policy is no longer an area that can be adequately addressed within major areas of public policy such as welfare, health, labor, and education. Disability has become widely acknowledged in recent decades, partly because of the increasing number of disabled citizens across all demographic populations. Advocates argue that diversity of all kinds deserves recognition and accommodation. This set examines policies targeting disability to provide a multifaceted description of the political participation of people with disabilities as well as disability policy development in the United States. The first volume focuses on political participation and voting issues, and the second volume covers disability public policy. In these two volumes, numerous scholars and experts in the social sciences and humanities explore timely topics that are key to disability policy questions, including activism, voting, race, gender, age, health care, social security, civil rights, abuse, the environment, and even death. Readers will better understand the challenges that policymakers face in grappling with controversies over issues of social engineering and public policy, often attempting to reconcile majority experience with minority rights. The chapters analyze the history of disability politics, describe the disability policy infrastructure as it currently exists in the United States, and provide insight into current disability-related controversies.

Author : Alison Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317280095

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Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy by Alison Brown Pdf

Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange. Yet policy responses are dismissive and evictions commonplace. Despite being progressively marginalised from public space, street traders in the global south are engaged in spatial and political battlegrounds to reclaim space, and claim de facto property rights over their place of work, through quiet infiltration, union power, or direct action. This book explores 'rebel streets', the challenges faced by informal economy actors and how organised groups are seeking to reframe legal understandings to create new claims to space and urban rights. The book sets out new thinking and a conceptual framework for improved understanding of the plural relationship between law, rights, and space for the informal economy, the contest between traditional, modernist and rights-based approaches to development, and impacts on the urban working poor. With a focus on street trading, the book seeks to reframe the legal context in which modern informal economies operate, drawing on key areas of academic inquiry and case studies of how vendors are staking claim to urban rights. The book argues for a reconceptualisation of legal instruments to provide a rights-based framework for urban work that recognises the legitimacy of urban informal economies, the scope for collective management of urban resources, and the social value of public space as a site for urban livelihoods. It will be of interest to students and scholars of geography, economics, urban studies, development studies, political studies and law.