Re Thinking Mobility Poverty

Author : Tobias Kuttler,Massimo Moraglio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000289503

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Re-thinking Mobility Poverty by Tobias Kuttler,Massimo Moraglio Pdf

This book seeks to better conceptualise and define mobility poverty, addressing both its geographies and socio-economic landscapes. It moves beyond the analysis of ‘transport poverty’ and innovatively explores mobility inequalities and social construction of mobility disadvantages. The debate on mobility poverty is gaining momentum due to its role in triggering social exclusion and economic deprivation. In this light, this book examines the social construction of mobility poverty by delving into mobility patterns and needs as they are differently experienced by social groups in different geographical situations. It considers factors such as the role of transport regimes and their social value when analysing the social construction of individual ́s mobility needs. Furthermore, the gaps between articulated and unarticulated needs are identified by observing actual travel patterns of individuals. The book offers a comparison of the global phenomenon through fieldwork conducted in six different European countries – Greece, Portugal, Italy, Luxembourg, Romania and Germany. This book will be useful reading for planners, sociologists, geographers, mobility/transport researchers, mobility advocates, policy-makers and transport practitioners. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367333317, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Author : William G. Tierney
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421417691

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Rethinking Education and Poverty by William G. Tierney Pdf

Although there is no simple solution to inequality, this book makes clear that education offers numerous exciting possibilities for progress.

Author : Imre Keseru,Annette Randhahn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031261558

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Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe 3 by Imre Keseru,Annette Randhahn Pdf

This book gathers contributions to the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project INDIMO (Inclusive Digital Mobility Solutions), its sister projects DIGNITY (Digital Transport in and for Society) and TRIPS (Transport Innovation for Persons with Disabilities Needs Satisfaction), which have been focusing on making transport systems inclusive and accessible for all. Digitalization has enabled the emergence and proliferation of novel, ‘disruptive’ transport and delivery services. These services are often exclusively only available through digital channels such as a smartphone app or website. Yet a substantial segment of the population is at risk of being excluded from these services for a variety of reasons. Therefore, it is strongly necessary to integrate inclusivity and accessibility into the design and operation of mobility services. This book aims at discussing cases of and reasons for digital exclusion in transport. It also investigates the role of participatory and user-centric planning and design methods in making digital mobility more inclusive and accessible. Further, it discusses tools and technologies that could help policy makers to develop digital mobility as a more inclusive and accessible service. This is an open access book.

Author : Barry Knight
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447340607

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Rethinking Poverty by Barry Knight Pdf

This book calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organisations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research programme by the Webb Memorial Trust, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people’s sense of agency in building the society that they want.

Author : Nitya Rao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317978138

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Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility by Nitya Rao Pdf

The primacy of education in development agendas is unquestioned. With the gradual acknowledgement of the potential benefits that migration can hold for development, the relationship between migration and education is a growing area of research. Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility explores how the decisions people make in terms of both their migration choices and educational investments, mediated as they are by gender, class, caste and nationality, can potentially contribute to earning incomes, building social and symbolic capital, or reshaping gender relations, all elements contributing to the process of economic and social mobility. Much of the existing literature examining the links between migration and education focuses either on the investment of migrant remittances in the education of their children back home or on ‘brain drain’ that refers to the migration of skilled workers from the developing to the developed world. Most of these discussions are firmly rooted in materialist arguments and while undeniably important, tend to underplay the social processes through which migration and education interact to shape people’s lives, identities and status in society. Along with economic security, people also aspire to social mobility and status enhancement. The ideas presented in this book take a more varied and nuanced view of the relationship between education and migration. This book was originally published as a special issue of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

Author : Deepa Narayan,Patti Petesch
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0821371118

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Moving Out of Poverty: Volume 1 by Deepa Narayan,Patti Petesch Pdf

This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. Leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology, critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new frameworks and evidence from their own works.

Author : Palash Kamruzzaman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137541437

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Dollarisation of Poverty: Rethinking Poverty Beyond 2015 by Palash Kamruzzaman Pdf

This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing countries in a post-2015 era. Taking specific country-contexts into account, the author argues that national poverty lines should be the benchmark for future anti-poverty policies.

Author : Deepa Narayan,Patti Petesch
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 082136992X

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Moving Out of Poverty by Deepa Narayan,Patti Petesch Pdf

This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic and social mobility, it takes the reader on compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts of three villages in Kanartaka, India, twelve years in the life of a street child in Burkina Faso, and much more. Leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new frameworks and evidence from their own works. The 'Moving Out of Poverty' series launched in 2007 is under the editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director of the pathbreaking 'Voices of the Poor' series. It features the results of new comparative research across more than 500 communities in 15 countries to understand how and why people move out of poverty, and presents other work which builds on interdisciplinary and contextually grounded understandings of growth and poverty reduction.

Author : Ruth Fincher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000256673

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Creating Unequal Futures? by Ruth Fincher Pdf

'This is an important and powerful book because of the rigour of the analysis, the good sense of the innovative strategies for action by government, business and civil society, and the concern throughout for social justice.' - John Langmore, Director, UN Division for Social Policy and Development One in six Australian kids live below the poverty line. Among the twenty-five leading industrialised countries, Australia has the fifth highest child poverty rate. This is a useful, if stark, indicator of the extent of long-term disadvantage in this country. Creating Unequal Futures? brings together eight of Australia's leading social scientists to introduce the reader to the processes which create and sustain persistent patterns of poverty and disadvantage. Although the contributors use different approaches, their research leads to a united call for a rethinking away from the prevailing 'gloom and doom' presentations of Australian material life. They signal pathways out of the dilemmas that bind people to poverty and disadvantage. If followed, those pathways will guide us to a future characterised by less inequality. If ignored, we may further entrench patterns of disadvantage and risk creating unequal futures for all Australians.

Author : Tony Gaskew
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739183137

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Rethinking Prison Reentry by Tony Gaskew Pdf

Rethinking Prison Reentry: Transforming Humiliation into Humility describes a prison-based education pedagogy designed to address a prevalent racial politics of shaming, self-segregation, and transgenerational learned helplessness. So many incarcerated black men face insurmountable psychosocial obstacles when attempting to make the successful transition back into ownership of their lives. Tony Gaskew confronts the issue of redemption and reconciliation head-on by critically examining the “triads of culpability” when it comes to crime and justice in America: (1) of those who commit crimes; (2) of those who enforce criminal laws; and (3) of those who stand by and do nothing. He explores the growth of a black counterculture of crime that has created modern-day killing fields across urban neighborhoods and challenges the incarcerated black men trapped within its socially constructed lies, helping them to draw upon the strength of their cultural privilege to transform from criminal offender into incarcerated student.

Author : Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030995546

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Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective by Beatrice Zucca Micheletto Pdf

This edited collection focuses on migrant women and their families, aiming to study their migration patterns in a historical and gendered perspective from early modernity to contemporary times, and to reassess the role and the nature of their commitment in migration dynamics. It develops an incisive dialogue between migration studies and gender studies. Migrant women, men and their families are studied through three different but interconnected and overlapping standpoints that have been identified as crucial for a gender approach: institutions and law, labour and the household economy, and social networks. The book also promotes the potential of an inclusive approach, tackling various types of migration (domestic and temporary movements, long-distance and international migration, temporary/seasonal mobility) and arguing that different migration phenomena can be observed and understood by posing common questions to different contexts. Migration patterns are shown to be multifaceted and stratified phenomena, resulting from a range of entangled economic, cultural and social factors. This book will be of interest to academics and students of economic history, as well as those working in gender studies and migration studies.

Author : Peter Cove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351498005

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Poor No More by Peter Cove Pdf

In the 1960s, America set out to end poverty. Policy-makers put forth an unprecedented package of legislation, funding poverty programs and empowering the poor through ineffectual employment-related education and training. However, these handouts produced little change, and efforts to provide education and job-training proved inconsequential, boasting only a 2.8 percent decrease in the poverty rate since 1965. Decades after the War on Poverty began, many of its programs failed. Only one thing really worked to help end poverty-and that was work itself, the centerpiece of welfare reform in 1996. Poor No More is a plan to restructure poverty programs, prioritizing jobs above all else. Traditionally, job placement programs stemmed from non-profit organizations or government agencies. However, America Works, the first for-profit job placement venture founded by Peter Cove, has the highest employee retention rate in the greater New York City area, even above these traditional agencies. When the federal government embraced the work-first ideal, inspired by the success of America Works, welfare rolls plummeted from 12.6 million to 4.7 million nationally within one decade. Poor No More is a paradigm-shifting work that guides the reader through the evolution of America's War on Poverty and urges policy-makers to eliminate training and education programs that waste time and money and to adopt a work-first model, while providing job-seekers with the tools and life lessons essential to finding and maintaining employment.

Author : Tan Yigitcanlar
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781616920227

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Rethinking Sustainable Development by Tan Yigitcanlar Pdf

"This book investigates the role of urban, regional and infrastructure planning in achieving sustainable urban and infrastructure development, providing insights into overcoming the consequences of unsustainable development"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Charles H. Wood,Bryan R. Roberts
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271045351

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Rethinking Development in Latin America by Charles H. Wood,Bryan R. Roberts Pdf

Author : Knight, Barry
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447340614

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Rethinking Poverty by Knight, Barry Pdf

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In our society, a wealthy minority flourish, while around one-fifth experience chronic poverty and many people on middle incomes fear for their futures. Social policy has failed to find answers to these problems and there is now a demand for a new narrative to enable us to escape from the crisis in our society. With the aim of ending poverty, this book argues that we need to start with the society we want, rather than framing poverty as a problem to be solved. It calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organisations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research programme carried out by the Webb Memorial Trust involving leading organisations, academics, community activists, children, and surveys of more than 12,000 people living in poverty, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people’s sense of agency in building the society that they want.