CfP, INTERDISCIPLINARY WORLD CONGRESS OF URBAN STUDIES: URBAN POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS 25 – 26 AUGUST 2022 Hybrid Event

It is a great pleasure to invite you to the hybrid Interdisciplinary World Congress of Urban Studies 2022, which will be held from 25-26 August in Istanbul and on-line. The hybrid format allows participants to attend from all around the globe, but we would also like to express our wish to have as many participants as possible with us personally in Istanbul.

Upcoming online Japan talk, Homelessness and Artistry in Japan: Azuma Hideo's Disappearance Diary Manga Feb. 8

Please join us Tuesday, February 8th 6:00pm (PST) for lecture by Professor Jon Holt, Portland State University, as a part of PSU's Center for Japanese Studies Winter lecture series.

New Book on Homelessness

From Mary L. Schuster, Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota: I am pleased that my latest book, Homeless Voices: Stigma, Space, and Social Media, is out from Lexington Press (Rowman & Littlefield), and I thank Kenny Fountain, Amy Koerber, Brian Larson, Ryan Berg, and Blake Scott for their endorsements!

Author: 
Teresa Gowan
Reviewer: 
Cynthia Miller

Miller on Gowan, 'Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco'

Teresa Gowan. Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xxiv + 340 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-4869-6; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-6967-7.

Reviewed by Cynthia Miller Published on H-Environment (January, 2011) Commissioned by David T. Benac

Author: 
Tova Höjdestrand
Reviewer: 
Ayse Akalin

Akalin on Höjdestrand, 'Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia'

Tova Höjdestrand. Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia. Culture and Society after Socialism Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. ix + 231 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4701-3; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8014-7593-1.

Reviewed by Ayse Akalin Published on H-SAE (January, 2013) Commissioned by Abby L. Drwecki

Author: 
Leonard C. Feldman
Reviewer: 
Ella Howard

Howard on Feldman, 'Citizens Without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion'

Leonard C. Feldman. Citizens Without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. x + 185 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4124-0.

Reviewed by Ella Howard (American and New England Studies, Boston University) Published on H-Urban (June, 2005)

Recognition, Redistribution and Rhetoric

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