Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty and Exclusion: A Critical Appraisal - Hardcover

Oosterlynck, Stijn; Novy, Andreas; Kazepov, Yuri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447338448 ISBN 13: 9781447338444

Verlag: Policy Press, 2019

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Based on more than 30 case studies in eight different countries, this book explores the governance dynamics of local social innovations in the field of poverty reduction. The diverse team of contributors illustrate how different governance dynamics and welfare mixes enable or hinder poverty reduction strategies and analyse how they involve a variety of actors, instruments and resources at different spatial scales.

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Stijn Oosterlynck is Associate Professor in Urban Sociology at the University of Antwerp, Sociology Department. He teaches courses on urban studies, poverty and social inequality. His research is concerned with local social innovation and welfare state restructuring, the political sociology of urban development, urban renewal and community building and new forms of solidarity in diversity. Andreas Novy is Associate Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). He is currently head of the institute of Multi-Level Governance and Development and president of the International Karl Polanyi Society (IKPS). His research focuses on urban development, social innovation and transdisciplinarity. Yuri Kazepov is Professor of International Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems at the University of Vienna (Austria) from March 2015. His fields of interest are urban governance, citizenship and urban quality of life, social policies in comparative perspective.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1447338448
• ISBN 13: 9781447338444
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland