Social Justice and Urban Homelessness
A Primer
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Beschreibung
Homelessness is one of the most visible tips of the polycrisis in which we currently live – social, economic, environmental, political – that some fear is becoming normalized as part of the status quo. This primer takes this longstanding and decidedly unresolved issue of urban injustice and puts its very grounded nature into conversation with the more theoretical and high-altitude grammars of social justice theory. The everyday and the esoteric are combined, enabling readers to understand how social justice theory can be applied to practical problems in the real world. Chapters guide readers to think through four common approaches to social justice – liberal, radical, post-structural and capabilities – across the single case study of urban homelessness. Bridging urban studies, political science, philosophy and sociology, this primer emphasizes the spatial aspects of social justice (who gets what, and where) and how social justice is increasingly an issue of cities, the main arenas through which social justice can be demanded and obtained.
Homelessness is one of the most visible tips of the polycrisis in which we currently live – social, economic, environmental, political – that some fear is becoming normalized as part of the status quo. This primer takes this longstanding and decidedly unresolved issue of urban injustice and puts its very grounded nature into conversation with the more theoretical and high-altitude grammars of social justice theory. The everyday and the esoteric are combined, enabling readers to understand how social justice theory can be applied to practical problems in the real world. Chapters guide readers to think through four common approaches to social justice – liberal, radical, post-structural and capabilities – across the single case study of urban homelessness. Bridging urban studies, political science, philosophy and sociology, this primer emphasizes the spatial aspects of social justice (who gets what, and where) and how social justice is increasingly an issue of cities, the main arenas through which social justice can be demanded and obtained.
Provides a rigorous and systematic analysis of an urban injustice (homelessness) from four social justice approaches Clarifies theoretical frameworks related to issues of justice for readers with interests across urban studies Signposts key social justice concerns in the 2020s as they relate to longstanding and unresolved social justice issues
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Geoffrey DeVerteuil
Themen in »Social Justice and Urban Homelessness«
Social justice Spatial justice Urban studies Homelessness Pragmatism Agnostic Applied pedagogy