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An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century.
HISTORY / Renaissance. --- Criminal History. --- Cultural Diversity. --- Cultural Minorities. --- Ecclesiastical History. --- Economic Margins. --- Gender Studies. --- Historiography. --- Marginality. --- Poor Relief. --- Poverty Studies. --- Power in Society. --- Religious Minorities. --- Scottish Society. --- Social Exclusion. --- Social Justice. --- Vagrancy. --- Witchcraft Studies. --- enslaved people. --- gypsies. --- Scotland --- Écosse --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales
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Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions. By focusing on the power and privilege that underpin persistent impoverishment and using tools of critical analysis and pedagogy, the authors explore the opportunities for and limits of poverty action in the current moment. Encountering Poverty invites students, educators, activists, and development professionals to think about and act against inequality by foregrounding, rather than sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical dilemmas of poverty action today.
Poverty. --- Poverty --- Poverty research --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Research. --- Research --- E-books --- ananya roy. --- critical poverty studies. --- economics. --- feminist theory. --- global economics. --- global health. --- global inequality. --- global poor. --- global poverty and practice. --- global poverty. --- historical study of poverty. --- history of poverty. --- intersectional feminism. --- millennials and the fight against poverty. --- persistent impoverishment. --- poverty and homelessness. --- poverty in a global context. --- poverty research. --- poverty. --- socioeconomic inequity. --- socioeconomics. --- systems of knowledge and poverty.
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Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students' lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? The Road Out is a gripping account of one teacher's journey of hope and discovery with her students-girls growing up poor in a neighborhood that was once home to white Appalachian workers, and is now a ghetto. Deborah Hicks, set out to give one group of girls something she never had: a first-rate education, and a chance to live their dreams. A contemporary tragedy is brought to life as she leads us deep into the worlds of Adriana, Blair, Mariah, Elizabeth, Shannon, Jessica, and Alicia?seven girls coming of age in poverty.This is a moving story about girls who have lost their childhoods, but who face the street's torments with courage and resiliency. "I want out," says 10-year-old Blair, a tiny but tough girl who is extremely poor and yet deeply imaginative and precocious. Hicks tries to convey to her students a sense of the power of fiction and of sisterhood to get them through the toughest years of adolescence. But by the time they're sixteen, eight years after the start of the class, the girls are experiencing the collision of their youthful dreams with the pitfalls of growing up in chaotic single-parent families amid the deteriorating cityscape. Yet even as they face disappointments and sometimes despair, these girls cling to their desire for a better future. The author's own life story-from a poorly educated girl in a small mountain town to a Harvard-educated writer, teacher, and social advocate-infuses this chronicle with a message of hope.
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Can philanthropy alleviate inequality? Do antipoverty programs work on the ground? In this eye-opening analysis, Erica Kohl-Arenas bores deeply into how these issues play out in California's Central Valley, which is one of the wealthiest agricultural production regions in the world and also home to the poorest people in the United States. Through the lens of a provocative set of case studies, The Self-Help Myth reveals how philanthropy maintains systems of inequality by attracting attention to the behavior of poor people while shifting the focus away from structural inequities and relationships of power that produce poverty. In Fresno County, for example, which has a
Social problems --- United States --- Farmers --- Charities --- Poverty --- Immigrants --- California --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Alms and almsgiving --- Benevolent institutions --- Charitable institutions --- Endowed charities --- Institutions, Charitable and philanthropic --- Philanthropy --- Poor relief --- Private nonprofit social work --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social service --- Endowments --- Farm operators --- Operators, Farm --- Planters (Persons) --- Agriculturists --- Rural population --- Societies, etc. --- Services for --- Provincia de Californias --- Ḳalifornyah --- Alta California (Province) --- Upper California --- Chia-chou --- Departamento de Californias --- Калифорнии --- Kalifornii --- State of California --- كاليفورنيا --- Kālīfūrniyā --- Штат Каліфорнія --- Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Каліфорнія --- Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Калифорния --- Καλιφόρνια --- Kaliphornia --- Πολιτεία της Καλιφόρνιας --- Politeia tēs Kaliphornias --- 캘리포니아 주 --- 캘리포니아주 --- Kʻaellipʻonia-ju --- Kʻaellipʻoniaju --- 캘리포니아 --- Kʻaellipʻonia --- קליפורניה --- מדינת קליפורניה --- Medinat Ḳalifornyah --- Калифорнија --- Kalifornija --- Karapōnia --- カリフォルニア州 --- Kariforunia-shū --- カリフォルニア --- Kariforunia --- קאליפארניע --- Ḳalifornye --- CA --- Calif. --- Cal. --- Cali. --- CF --- Californias (Province) --- agriculture production regions. --- agriculture. --- american culture. --- american poverty. --- american studies. --- antipoverty programs. --- antipoverty. --- behavior of poor people. --- california. --- case studies. --- central valley. --- charity. --- civic participation. --- farms and farmers. --- food banks. --- government and governing. --- inequality. --- migrant farm workers. --- migrants. --- mutual prosperity. --- philanthropy. --- politics. --- poverty studies. --- poverty. --- relationships of power. --- religious organizations. --- theories of change. --- traditional american ideals. --- united states of america.
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