Housing Social Policy and Difference: Disability, Ethnicity, Gender and Housing - Couverture rigide

Harrison, Malcolm; Davis, Cathy

 
9781861343055: Housing Social Policy and Difference: Disability, Ethnicity, Gender and Housing
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ISBN 10 : 1861343051 ISBN 13 : 9781861343055
Editeur : Policy Press, 2001

Synopsis

Issues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity and gender. This book provides an invaluable overview of key issues set in the context of housing. Touching on concerns ranging from minority ethnic housing needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, this broad-ranging study shows how difference is regulated in housing. It deploys a distinctive theoretical perspective which is applicable to other aspects of the welfare state, and bridges the agency/structure divide. Housing, social policy and difference: brings disability, ethnicity and gender into the centre of an analysis of housing policies and practices; offers a new approach to housing, informed by recent theoretical debates about agency, structure and diversity; develops the ideas of 'difference within difference' and 'social regulation'; looks beyond the concerns of postmodernism to create an original account of difference and structure within the welfare state. The book will be an important text for students and researchers in housing, social policy, planning, urban studies, sociology, disability studies, gender studies and ethnic relations. It will also interest practitioners committed to greater equalities of opportunities and a fairer society.

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À propos de l'auteur

Malcolm Harrison is Reader in Housing and Social Policy in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, England. Cathy Davis is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography at Leeds.

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Éditeur
Policy Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1861343051
ISBN 13 
9781861343055
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781861341877: Housing Social Policy and Difference: Disability, Ethnicity, Gender and Housing

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ISBN 10 :  1861341873 ISBN 13 :  9781861341877
Editeur : Policy Press, 2001
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