Tag: Deprivation

Free Download Joseph Cho-Yam Lau, "Self-Organization and Mobility Deprivation of Poor Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore "
English | ISBN: 9819972647 | 2023 | 249 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book focuses on the influence of socio-economic and land-use policies on the commuting problems and quality of life of the poor in Singapore and Hong Kong. It considers the influence of self-organisation: how the mobility of an individual is constituted by structures such as transport systems or socio-economic structural factors, as well as influenced by individual decisions. Where most transport studies focus on the influence of factors such as income inequality, the gender gap, and the built environment, this book fills a gap in paying particular attention to the influence of individual decisions on commuting. Given the prevalence of the former in research, government decision-makers are often constrained by these approaches and fail to understand the commuting problems of the poor. This book argues that the self-organisation approach provides some ideas that are outside the common conceptual framework in conventional transport planning and looks to improve mobility of lower-income commuters. Relevant to social science researchers working in areas such as urban planning and transport, mobility deprivation, and poverty, this book breaks new ground in quality of life studies in the Singapore and Hong Kong contexts.

Free Download Dale Allender, "From Cultural Deprivation to Cultural Security: Tackling Socio-Cultural Deprivation with Children and Young People "
English | ISBN: 103201170X | 2024 | 208 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This important book considers how youth of color and other marginalized youth experience socio-cultural deprivation from the repetition of traumatic socio-historic experiences as well as from the institutions they interact with such as schools, mental health organizations, and social services agencies. Focusing on the importance of connection to cultural heritage, the book shows how young people’s cognitive development can be mediated in educational settings through humanizing and culturally sustaining rituals that build rapport and facilitate learning and healing.

Free Download Multidimensional Well-Being, Deprivation and Inequality: Conceptual Issues and Measurement by P. K. Pattanaik , Yongsheng Xu
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 180 Pages | ISBN : 3031620453 | 8.9 MB
This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum’s framework for thinking about individual well-being. Called the functioning and capability approach (FCA), this framework radically departs from the conventional approach to the concept of individual well-being in welfare economics insofar as it identifies an individual’s well-being as the value attached to the individual’s achievements along certain dimensions of life and her freedom to choose a vector of such achievements rather than as the individual’s happiness or desire fulfillment.