Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North -

Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North

Buch | Hardcover
338 Seiten
2024
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5108-7 (ISBN)
77,30 inkl. MwSt
This book explores the myriad ways in which northern urban places foster new forms of community-building and social inclusion for people experiencing homelessness.
Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North brings together leading scholars on northern urban housing across the Canadian North, Alaska, and Greenland. Through various case studies, the contributors examine the ways in which housing insecurity and homelessness provide a critical lens on the social dimensions of northern urbanization. They also present key considerations in the development of effective and sustainable social policy for these areas. The book kickstarts a conversation between multiple stakeholders from different cultural and national regions across the North American north. It asks key questions including these: What are the common problems of, and responses to, housing insecurity and homelessness across these northern regions? Is a single definition of “homelessness” even possible, or desirable? And if not, can a shared language around how to end the housing crisis and homelessness in our northern regions still occur?

The contributors explore how experiences of northern towns and cities inform an overall understanding of urban forms and processes in the contemporary world, and speak directly to the emerging body of literature on cities. Highlighting key limitations to federal, state, and provincial policy, Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North raises important implications for developing policy that is responsive to northern realities.

Julia Christensen is an associate professor of geography and planning at Queen’s University. Sally Carraher is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Travis Hedwig is an associate professor of health sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Steven Arnfjord is an associate professor of social work and the director of Ilisimatusarfik’s Centre for Arctic Welfare at the University of Greenland.

Introduction
Section One: The Canadian North

Regional Introduction: The Canadian North
Julia Christensen

1: It’s a Tough Game: Navigating Housing Monopolies in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
Lisa Freeman and Julia Christensen

2: Responding to Homelessness in Yellowknife: Pushing the Ocean Back with a Spoon
Nick Falvo

3: An “Urban” Issue, and the Issue with “Urban”: Contextualizing Homelessness in Whitehorse
Alexandra Nelson

4: Homelessness, Mobility, and Migration from the James Bay
Carol Kauppi, Michael Hankard, and Henri Pallard

5: A Different Kind of “Ecological Refugee”: Land Claims, Migration, and Inequalities in Northern Labrador
Joshua Moses

6: Making Place Home: The Contradictions of Inuit Housing in a Liberal Democracy
Frank Tester

Section Two: Alaska

Regional Introduction: Alaska
Sally Carraher and Travis Hedwig

7: Northern Voices on Homelessness: Engaging the Public and Promoting Inclusivity for Homeless Alaskans in Public Discourse
Sally Carraher and Travis Hedwig

8: Differing Meanings of Housing First: Lessons Learned from a Single-Site Program Evaluation in Anchorage, Alaska
Travis Hedwig

9: Alaska Is a Very Small Town: Moving Towards an Understanding of Homelessness in the Urban North
Clare Dannenberg

Section Three: Greenland

Regional Introduction: Greenland
Steven Arnfjord and Julia Christensen

10: In Search of Security: Women’s Homelessness in Nuuk, Greenland
Steven Arnfjord and Julia Christensen

11: Welfare Colonialism and Geographies of Homelessness in Nuuk, Greenland
Julia Christensen, Steven Arnfjord, and Marie-Louise Aastrup
 
Conclusion
Epilogue: Homelessness across the Arctic in the Shadow of COVID-19

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w map, 1 b&w figure, 20 b&w tables
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 580 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-4875-5108-8 / 1487551088
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-5108-7 / 9781487551087
Zustand Neuware
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