Author: Sylvie Morel
Publisher: Condition féminine Canada
ISBN: 9780662873471
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Modèle Du Workfare Ou Modèle de L'insertion?
Author: Sylvie Morel
Publisher: Condition féminine Canada
ISBN: 9780662873471
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Publisher: Condition féminine Canada
ISBN: 9780662873471
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Modèle Du Workfare Ou Modèle de L'insertion? La Transformation de L'assistance Sociale Au Canada Et Au Quebec
Author: Sylvie Morel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic documents
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The overall objective of this study is to do a comparative analysis of the principles and modalities that are shaping the transformation of social assistance policy in Canada, primarily in Quebec. It also takes a brief look at the experiences of Ontario and New Brunswick. It describes 2 models of government intervention in the conception and implementation of the new contract of social assistance reciprocity between the poor and the State: workfare, as developed in the United States, and insertion, the chosen model in France. The focus of the study is to describe, in relation to these 2 models, the social assistance configuration of rights and duties currently being institutionalized between women and the State within Canada and Quebec.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic documents
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The overall objective of this study is to do a comparative analysis of the principles and modalities that are shaping the transformation of social assistance policy in Canada, primarily in Quebec. It also takes a brief look at the experiences of Ontario and New Brunswick. It describes 2 models of government intervention in the conception and implementation of the new contract of social assistance reciprocity between the poor and the State: workfare, as developed in the United States, and insertion, the chosen model in France. The focus of the study is to describe, in relation to these 2 models, the social assistance configuration of rights and duties currently being institutionalized between women and the State within Canada and Quebec.
Alternative Food Networks
Author: David Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113664122X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Farmers’ markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods – how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods crowd supermarket shelves and other "mainstream" shopping outlets? This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of alternative food networks and their struggle to defend their ethical and aesthetic values against the standardizing pressures of the corporate mainstream with its "placeless and nameless" global supply networks. It explores how these alternative movements are "making a difference" and their possible role as fears of global climate change and food insecurity intensify. It assesses the different experiences of these networks in three major arenas of food activism and politics: Britain and Western Europe, the United States, and the global Fair Trade economy. This comparative perspective runs throughout the book to fully explore the progressive erosion of the interface between alternative and mainstream food provisioning. As the era of "cheap food" draws to a close, analysis of the limitations of market-based social change and the future of alternative food economies and localist food politics place this book at the cutting-edge of the field. The book is thoroughly informed by contemporary social theory and interdisciplinary social scientific scholarship, formulates an integrative social practice framework to understand alternative food production-consumption, and offers a unique geographical reach in its case studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113664122X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Farmers’ markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods – how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods crowd supermarket shelves and other "mainstream" shopping outlets? This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of alternative food networks and their struggle to defend their ethical and aesthetic values against the standardizing pressures of the corporate mainstream with its "placeless and nameless" global supply networks. It explores how these alternative movements are "making a difference" and their possible role as fears of global climate change and food insecurity intensify. It assesses the different experiences of these networks in three major arenas of food activism and politics: Britain and Western Europe, the United States, and the global Fair Trade economy. This comparative perspective runs throughout the book to fully explore the progressive erosion of the interface between alternative and mainstream food provisioning. As the era of "cheap food" draws to a close, analysis of the limitations of market-based social change and the future of alternative food economies and localist food politics place this book at the cutting-edge of the field. The book is thoroughly informed by contemporary social theory and interdisciplinary social scientific scholarship, formulates an integrative social practice framework to understand alternative food production-consumption, and offers a unique geographical reach in its case studies.
Environmental Justice
Author: Brendan Coolsaet
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429639163
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship. The rapidly growing body of research in this area has brought about a proliferation of approaches; as such, the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiring environmental justice students and scholars. This book therefore is unique for its accessible style and innovative approach to exploring environmental justice. Written by leading international experts from a variety of professional, geographic, ethnic, and disciplinary backgrounds, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. Organised into four parts—approaches, issues, actors and future directions—the chapters help the reader to understand the foundations of the field, including the principal concepts, debates, and historical milestones. This volume also features sections with learning outcomes, follow-up questions, references for further reading and vivid photographs to make it a useful teaching and learning tool. Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the ideal toolkit for junior researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and anyone in need of a comprehensive introductory textbook on environmental justice.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429639163
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship. The rapidly growing body of research in this area has brought about a proliferation of approaches; as such, the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiring environmental justice students and scholars. This book therefore is unique for its accessible style and innovative approach to exploring environmental justice. Written by leading international experts from a variety of professional, geographic, ethnic, and disciplinary backgrounds, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. Organised into four parts—approaches, issues, actors and future directions—the chapters help the reader to understand the foundations of the field, including the principal concepts, debates, and historical milestones. This volume also features sections with learning outcomes, follow-up questions, references for further reading and vivid photographs to make it a useful teaching and learning tool. Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the ideal toolkit for junior researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and anyone in need of a comprehensive introductory textbook on environmental justice.
Uncivil City
Author: Amita Baviskar
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN: 9789353289430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book looks at two decades of environmental politics in Delhi and argues that 'bourgeois environmentalists' who claim to speak for nature and society have perversely worsened the quality of life for most citizens.
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN: 9789353289430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book looks at two decades of environmental politics in Delhi and argues that 'bourgeois environmentalists' who claim to speak for nature and society have perversely worsened the quality of life for most citizens.
First Garden of the Republic
Author: Amita Baviskar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788123021294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788123021294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Housing and Politics in Urban India
Author: Swetha Rao Dhananka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108633811
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Providing adequate housing in an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge of current times. This book puts together a compelling story based on fine-grained analysis of housing processes, as lived by slum-dwellers and their voice-bearers. It situates the lived experience of claiming adequate housing within informal transactions and negotiations of patronage networks vis-à-vis the formal institutional opportunities and closures of Indian democracy. In doing so, this research extends an innovative array of conceptual and methodological tools to grasp the context in which housing claims succeed and fail. This book contributes by responding to critical areas of social movement scholarship and by displaying community engagements and tactical strategies to bring about transformative change to claim adequate housing and resist co-opting forces for socially sustainable housing futures.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108633811
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Providing adequate housing in an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge of current times. This book puts together a compelling story based on fine-grained analysis of housing processes, as lived by slum-dwellers and their voice-bearers. It situates the lived experience of claiming adequate housing within informal transactions and negotiations of patronage networks vis-à-vis the formal institutional opportunities and closures of Indian democracy. In doing so, this research extends an innovative array of conceptual and methodological tools to grasp the context in which housing claims succeed and fail. This book contributes by responding to critical areas of social movement scholarship and by displaying community engagements and tactical strategies to bring about transformative change to claim adequate housing and resist co-opting forces for socially sustainable housing futures.
Progress
Author: Peter Wagner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 074569103X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing the promise of freedom and reason. The scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, and the French Revolution, in some views also the socialist revolution, were milestones on this march of progress. But since the late twentieth century the idea of progress has largely disappeared from public debate. Sometimes it has been explicitly declared dead. The wide horizon of future possibilities has closed. The best we can hope for, some say, is to avoid regress. What happened to progress? Why did we stop believing in it, if indeed we did? This book offers answers to these questions. It reviews both the conceptual history of progress and the social and political experiences with progress over the past two centuries, and it comes to a surprising conclusion: The idea of progress was misconceived from its beginnings, and the failure of progress in practice was a result of this flawed conception. The experiences of the past half century, in turn, has allowed us to rethink progress in a more adequate way. Rather than the end of progress, they may herald the beginning of a new, reconstructed idea of progress.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 074569103X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing the promise of freedom and reason. The scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, and the French Revolution, in some views also the socialist revolution, were milestones on this march of progress. But since the late twentieth century the idea of progress has largely disappeared from public debate. Sometimes it has been explicitly declared dead. The wide horizon of future possibilities has closed. The best we can hope for, some say, is to avoid regress. What happened to progress? Why did we stop believing in it, if indeed we did? This book offers answers to these questions. It reviews both the conceptual history of progress and the social and political experiences with progress over the past two centuries, and it comes to a surprising conclusion: The idea of progress was misconceived from its beginnings, and the failure of progress in practice was a result of this flawed conception. The experiences of the past half century, in turn, has allowed us to rethink progress in a more adequate way. Rather than the end of progress, they may herald the beginning of a new, reconstructed idea of progress.
Les logiques de la réciprocité
Author: Sylvie Morel
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France - PUF
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 340
Book Description
L'assistante sociale a connu récemment une transformation majeure : elle est devenue une aide liée. De nouvelles formes de réciprocité - et de nouveaux espaces de négociation - sont ainsi venues reconfigurer la relation d'assistance. Le workfare, aux États-Unis, et l'insertion, en France, traduisent cette évolution. Mais les institutions ne sont-elles pas toujours enracinées dans un lieu et un passé ? En effet, lorsque l'on compare les cas américain et français, ce sont. malgré une orientation a priori analogue, deux conceptions de la relation sociale entre les pauvres et l'État qui s'opposent. Il s'en dégage, en d'autres termes, deux logiques différenciées de la réciprocité. L'analyse comparative présentée dans cet ouvrage s'appuie sur un cadre théorique alternatif à celui de l'économie orthodoxe, l'institutionnalisme de John R. Commons, qui permet de renouveler l'étude des politiques sociales. Elle s'élabore également dans une perspective féministe, montrant que l'étude des formes contemporaines de régulation du travail qui prennent leur source dans les politiques d'assistance sociale, requiert un regard transversal sur la sécurité sociale, l'emploi et la famille, espaces de production et de reproduction. La lutte contre la pauvreté ou l'exclusion est un combat perdu d'avance si elle ne s'appuie pas sur une vision intégrée des problèmes et des solutions. C'est donc, au bout du compte, à une réflexion sur la dynamique des droits et des devoirs dans les principales institutions garantes de la sécurité économique dans nos sociétés que ce livre est consacré.
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France - PUF
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 340
Book Description
L'assistante sociale a connu récemment une transformation majeure : elle est devenue une aide liée. De nouvelles formes de réciprocité - et de nouveaux espaces de négociation - sont ainsi venues reconfigurer la relation d'assistance. Le workfare, aux États-Unis, et l'insertion, en France, traduisent cette évolution. Mais les institutions ne sont-elles pas toujours enracinées dans un lieu et un passé ? En effet, lorsque l'on compare les cas américain et français, ce sont. malgré une orientation a priori analogue, deux conceptions de la relation sociale entre les pauvres et l'État qui s'opposent. Il s'en dégage, en d'autres termes, deux logiques différenciées de la réciprocité. L'analyse comparative présentée dans cet ouvrage s'appuie sur un cadre théorique alternatif à celui de l'économie orthodoxe, l'institutionnalisme de John R. Commons, qui permet de renouveler l'étude des politiques sociales. Elle s'élabore également dans une perspective féministe, montrant que l'étude des formes contemporaines de régulation du travail qui prennent leur source dans les politiques d'assistance sociale, requiert un regard transversal sur la sécurité sociale, l'emploi et la famille, espaces de production et de reproduction. La lutte contre la pauvreté ou l'exclusion est un combat perdu d'avance si elle ne s'appuie pas sur une vision intégrée des problèmes et des solutions. C'est donc, au bout du compte, à une réflexion sur la dynamique des droits et des devoirs dans les principales institutions garantes de la sécurité économique dans nos sociétés que ce livre est consacré.
Power and Care
Author: Tania Singer
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262351676
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama. For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human wellbeing and compassion. These conversations, which began as private meetings, are now part of the Mind & Life Institute and Mind & Life Europe. This book documents a recent Mind & Life Institute dialogue with the Dalai Lama and others on two fundamental forces: power and care—power over and care for others in human societies. The notion of power is essentially neutral; power can be used to benefit others or to harm them, to build or to destroy. Care, on the other hand, is not a neutral force; it aims at increasing the wellbeing of others. Power and care are not incompatible: power, imbued with care, can achieve more than a powerless motivation to care; power, without the intention to benefit others, can be ruthless. The contributors—who include such celebrated figures as Frans B. M. de Waal, Olafur Eliasson, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, and Jody Williams—discuss topics including the interaction of power and care among our closest relatives, the chimpanzees; the effect of meditation and mental training practices on the brain; the role of religion in promoting peace and compassion; and the new field of Caring Economics. Contributors Paul Collier, Brother Thierry-Marie Courau, Frans B. M. de Waal, Olafur Eliasson, Scilla Elworthy, Alexandra M. Freund, Tenzin Gyatso (His Holiness the Dalai Lama), Markus Heinrichs, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Frédéric Laloux, Alaa Murabit, Matthieu Ricard, Johan Rockström, Richard Schwartz, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower, Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, Theo Sowa, Pauline Tangiora, Jody Williams
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262351676
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama. For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human wellbeing and compassion. These conversations, which began as private meetings, are now part of the Mind & Life Institute and Mind & Life Europe. This book documents a recent Mind & Life Institute dialogue with the Dalai Lama and others on two fundamental forces: power and care—power over and care for others in human societies. The notion of power is essentially neutral; power can be used to benefit others or to harm them, to build or to destroy. Care, on the other hand, is not a neutral force; it aims at increasing the wellbeing of others. Power and care are not incompatible: power, imbued with care, can achieve more than a powerless motivation to care; power, without the intention to benefit others, can be ruthless. The contributors—who include such celebrated figures as Frans B. M. de Waal, Olafur Eliasson, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, and Jody Williams—discuss topics including the interaction of power and care among our closest relatives, the chimpanzees; the effect of meditation and mental training practices on the brain; the role of religion in promoting peace and compassion; and the new field of Caring Economics. Contributors Paul Collier, Brother Thierry-Marie Courau, Frans B. M. de Waal, Olafur Eliasson, Scilla Elworthy, Alexandra M. Freund, Tenzin Gyatso (His Holiness the Dalai Lama), Markus Heinrichs, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Frédéric Laloux, Alaa Murabit, Matthieu Ricard, Johan Rockström, Richard Schwartz, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower, Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, Theo Sowa, Pauline Tangiora, Jody Williams