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Being civil is not enough: On practices of citizenship of women living in poverty in Israel
Radical Housing Journal, 2019 The public housing crisis became politically salient during and after the 2011 Tents Protest in Israel. Alongside demands from the young largely Jewish middle class to restore the economic order, many women in poverty took to the streets hoping ...
Gal Levy, Riki Kohan-Benlulu
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The (possible) function of the beatitude of the poor in the context of the struggle against poverty
Acta Theologica, 2012 The article focuses on the beatitude of the poor in the social and religious context of historical Jesus. The original version of this makarism has to be seen as a religious statement which is not meant as a program of social reform.
Joachim Kügler
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Nuovi autoritarismi e democrazie: diritto, istituzioni, società, 2023 The rise and consolidation of neoliberalism witnessed, inter alia, the emergence of a discourse on the causes of poverty centred on public corruption, which has informed the mainstream of development. In this perspective, the goal of “long-term economic
Matilde Adduci
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Social Work Involved in Targted Poverty Alleviation: From Individual Aid to System Change
Contemporary Social Sciences, 2018 The development of social work is to some extent a history of the struggle against poverty. Social work enabled targeted poverty alleviation aims to form a two–way force to implement targeted poverty alleviation policies in a bid to create a new ...
Jin Yutong
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Perspectives in Education, 2011 From text: In The Burden of Education Exclusion: ‘Understanding and Challenging Early School Leaving in Africa’ Jacques Zeelen, Dorothy Nampota, Josje van der Linden and Maximiano Ngabirano (eds) have compiled a book that explores a somewhat awkward ...
Paul Wabike
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Biopolitical Devices of Social Integration: The Business of Education for the Poor
Revista Internacional de Educación para la Justicia Social, 2018 The minimum income programs are essential public actions in the fight against poverty in the European Union. In this article, we intend to show the characteristics of the minimum income policies for the fight against poverty and the training activities ...
Juan Ramón Rodríguez Fernández +1 more
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Shocks, Sensitivity and Resilience: Tracking the Economic Impacts of Environmental Disaster on Assets in Ethiopia and Honduras [PDF]
Droughts, hurricanes and other environmental shocks punctuate the lives of poor and vulnerable populations in many parts of the world. The direct impacts can be horrific, but what are the longer-term effects of such shocks on households and their ...
Michael Carter +3 more
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Colombia Internacional, 2016 The Human Development Reports (HDR) commissioned by the United Nations since 1990 have made many references to the relation between human development and human rights.
Maria José de Rezende
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An idea unleashed in history: Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the campaign to end poverty in America [PDF]
, 2018 A range of learning opportunities helped to prepare and educate thousands of activists to participate in American civil rights movement campaigns in the 1960s.
Hamilton, Robert
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Studi Irlandesi, 2017 The paper discusses Joseph O’Connor’s novel as an investigation of a necropolitical event par excellence – the Great Famine. The mass production of dead bodies through poverty, starvation and disease is coupled with O’Connor’s struggle against necropower
Danijela Petković
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