Podcast appearances and mentions of urban poor

This year, Delhi faced severe heat waves with temperatures that soared past 45 degrees on several days. The most vulnerable people—those who live in informal settlements—suffered the brunt of this extreme weather.  The Union Health Ministry and India Meteorological Department issued public health advisories as heatwave conditions persisted in various parts of the country. The advisories talk about following precautions such as monitoring the health of vulnerable individuals, staying hydrated, staying indoors during peak hours, keeping the house cool and so on.  Suno India's Sneha Richhariya visited Nandlal Juggi in Gopalpur village near Mukherjee Nagar in North Delhi, to understand whether these advisories reflect the lives of the urban poor and more.  See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

UNICEF recently released a report titled "Living on the Edge," which focuses on low-income families in Kuala Lumpur. living in low cost flats. The report's authors, Dr. Juanita Vasquez Escallon, Chief of Social Policy at UNICEF, and Zouhair Rosli, Deputy Director of Research at DM Analytics, share their shocking findings and policy recommendations to assist these vulnerable households.

Modi govt had launched Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (ARHC) scheme in July 2020 during the pandemic, when there was a massive exodus of migrant workers from cities.

Alton Hardy preaches about the great commission in relation to discipleship among the urban poor.

Govt plans to target specific occupational groups & focus on entrepreneurship development in 2nd phase of Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihood Mission, it is learnt.----more---- https://theprint.in/india/governance/ahead-of-2024-modi-govt-looks-to-expand-reach-of-scheme-for-urban-poor/1848431/

Bengaluru is currently experiencing significant and diverse forms of urban growth. Numerous environmental studies have consistently highlighted the adverse impact of intense urbanization on the city's environment. However, the city is now also gaining attention in discussions about its susceptibility to climate change. Unfortunately, the most severe consequences of this situation are affecting those residing in informal settlements throughout Bengaluru. Due to the lack of resources, the priorities of these residents in these settlements do not include climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. Then how do we make these residents an active participant in the agenda of climate change? In this episode of Climate Emergency, host Sneha Richhariya talks to Bijal Brahmbhatt, who is the executive director of Mahila Housing Trust, which is a grassroots organization that works to strengthen women in the urban informal sector. MHT is also a part of Ellara Bengaluru, which is a union of NGOs, academia, civic society authorities to jointly work on building a climate-change resilient Bengaluru.See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Recorded on 28 September 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar with Dr Milton Amuyan. The majority of the world's population now lives in cities. This concentration of people in urban centers will intensify in the years to come. Many cities with populations of one million or more are added to the already long list each year. Urbanization requires investments in infrastructure, jobs, education and social services. The lack of regional urban planning has led to increasing problems of homelessness, unemployment, pollution, lack of water and sanitation, crime, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, prostitution, trafficking in persons and other illegal behaviors. It is a mission field with many challenges. Yet it is in the cities where God's message of redemption is most needed and where Christians serving with love can make a great impact. The webinar examines some crucial opportunities for Christian service in this vast mission field, where the Gospel can transform the quality of lives of children, the youth, adults, families, and communities around the globe. Milton earned his MD from the University of the Philippines and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University. At the 1978 World Congress of the International Congress of Christian Physicians (ICMDA's predecessor), he met his wife Dr. Raija Ebeling from Helsinki, Finland. They were married in Bangkok, Thailand in 1982 and then served in Thailand, Costa Rica, Cambodia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Senegal, the United States, Eastern Europe, Benin and the Philippines. Dr. Raija went home to the Lord in September 2022 after a two-year long illness while they were stationed in Manila. Since then, Milton's involvement with poverty issues has further intensified. He is currently the President of Yuchengco Center, a think tank on poverty; chairs or sits on the Board of Directors of several civil society organizations; and teaches leadership and development themes in a private university. He also leads a home church once a week. To listen live to future ICMDA webinars, visit⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/⁠

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This episode's interview with Ankhi Mukherjee focuses on her recent book, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor. It discusses Mukherjee's research on Freud's free clinics and their afterlives in different cities and projects that make psychoanalytic interventions in marginalized communities. We discuss the roles literary criticism can play in the work of these clinics, as well as the urgent need for spaces for subjectivity that are not limited to economic elites and that extend beyond the couch.Many thanks to  Kellen Corrallo for editorial work on the episode.

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (Princeton UP, 2023) shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country's expanding cities.  Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India's slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition—as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers—to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying.  By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (Princeton UP, 2023) shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country's expanding cities.  Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India's slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition—as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers—to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying.  By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (Princeton UP, 2023) shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country's expanding cities.  Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India's slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition—as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers—to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying.  By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (Princeton UP, 2023) shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country's expanding cities.  Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India's slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition—as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers—to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying.  By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (Princeton UP, 2023) shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country's expanding cities.  Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India's slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition—as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers—to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying.  By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College.

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (Princeton UP, 2023) shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country's expanding cities.  Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India's slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition—as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers—to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying.  By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A case study of Program Perumahan Rakyat (PPR).

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi (Stanford UP, 2022) examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi (Stanford UP, 2022) examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi (Stanford UP, 2022) examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi (Stanford UP, 2022) examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi (Stanford UP, 2022) examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi (Stanford UP, 2022) examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ponad 200 grindwali zostało wyrzuconych na tasmańską plażę, dlaczego tak się stało i co z nimi zrobiono? Jak długo żyją psy i co ma wpływ na ich długowieczność? Jaki wpływ na długość i jakość snu ma bieda oraz które warzywa, spożywane przez mamy w ciąży, smakują nienarodzonym jeszcze dzieciom i co z tego wynika dla późniejszych preferencji smakowych. Zapraszam na kolejny odcinek podkastu Naukowo!Jeśli uznasz, że warto wspierać ten projekt to zapraszam do serwisu Patronite, każda dobrowolna wpłata od słuchaczy pozwoli mi na rozwój i doskonalenie tego podkastu, bardzo dziękuję za każde wsparcie!Zapraszam również na Facebooka, Twittera i Instagrama, każdy lajk i udostępnienie pomoże w szerszym dotarciu do słuchaczy, a to jest teraz moim głównym celem :) Na stronie Naukowo.net znajdziesz więcej interesujących artykułów naukowych, zachęcam również do dyskusji na tematy naukowe, dzieleniu się wiedzą i nowościami z naukowego świata na naszym serwerze Discord - https://discord.gg/mqsjM5THXrŹródła użyte przy tworzeniu odcinka:Ustun, B., Reissland, N., Covey, J., Schaal, B., & Blissett, J. (2022). Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus. Psychological Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221105460Culum Brown, "About 200 dead whales have been towed out to sea off Tasmania – and what happens next is a true marvel of nature", https://theconversation.com/about-200-dead-whales-have-been-towed-out-to-sea-off-tasmania-and-what-happens-next-is-a-true-marvel-of-nature-191340Donna Lu, Graham Readfearn, "Hundreds of whales stranded on Tasmania's west coast in state's second event this week", https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/21/reports-hundreds-of-whales-stranded-on-tasmanias-west-coast-in-states-second-event-this-weekUS Supreme Court, "Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 555 U.S. 7 (2008)", 555 U.S. 7, Docket No. 07-1239, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/555/7/Pedro Bessone, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield, Mattie Toma, The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 136, Issue 3, August 2021, Pages 1887–1941, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab013 / PDF: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26746/w26746.pdfTeng, K.Ty., Brodbelt, D.C., Pegram, C. et al. Life tables of annual life expectancy and mortality for companion dogs in the United Kingdom. Sci Rep 12, 6415 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10341-6Jesslyn Shields, "The Longest-living Dog Breeds Are Tiny, But Why?", https://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/longest-living-dog-breeds-tiny.htm

Dr. Heather Schofield is an Assistant Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School and Vasanthi Pillai, PhD researcher in the Professorship of Behavioral Science for Disease Prevention and Health Care at the Technical University of Munich discuss a range of research areas including sleep, Ramadan fasting and its impact on the economic production in agriculture, loneliness and cognitive endurance. She briefly also talks about the Behavioral Development Lab (BDL) at Chennai which she co-founded with two other researchers. BDL focuses on integrating behavioural economics and development economics to understand the causes and consequences of poverty Dr. Heather also delves deeper into how she picks a research idea and the intermediary methods that ultimately lead to the fruition of a research project. She focuses on her paper - The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor and how using actigraphy was central to tracking sleep patterns and motor movements among the respondents. She also discusses her study Ramadan Fasting and Agricultural Output” which studies overlaps between Ramadan and the labour-intensive portions of cropping cycles and provides a very interesting insight into the correlation between religiosity and growth. Given that this is a rather unexplored issue, religious influence is rarely analyzed when constructing/discussing labour policies In conclusion, Dr. Heather also provides extremely valuable advice that researchers should be mindful of while conducting research.

On this episode of The Report Card, https://www.aei.org/profile/nathaniel-n-malkus/ (Nat) interviews https://sites.google.com/site/christinabrownecon/ (Christina Brown) and https://heatherschofield.net (Heather Schofield), two of the authors of https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30133/w30133.pdf (Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital). Nat, Christina, and Heather discuss what cognitive endurance is and why it's important, PISA, an elaborate field experiment in India, disparities in American schools, shortening standardized tests, students in Pakistan, mazes and tangrams, what schools can do differently to build cognitive endurance in students, AP exams, long medical shifts, whether an extra year of schooling makes a difference for cognitive endurance, the ideal age to build cognitive endurance, and more. Christina Brown is a development economist who will be joining the University of Chicago's Economics Department as an Assistant Professor in 2023, and Heather Schofield is an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School. Their coauthors on Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital are https://www.supreetkaur.com (Supreet Kaur) and https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=GGKIN45 (Geeta Kingdon). Show Notes: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30133/w30133.pdf (Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital) https://christinalbrown.github.io/Christina_Brown_JMP_Teacher_Sorting.pdf (Inducing Positive Sorting through Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from Pakistani Schools) https://heatherschofield.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/revised_sleep_paper-16.pdf (The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor) https://heatherschofield.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/schofield-ramadan-and-agricultural-output.pdf (Ramadan Fasting and Agricultural Output)

Ankhi Mukherjee talks about that looks at the subject of psychoanalysis as a product of social and cultural processes, and thereby reorients concepts of parental and familial bonds, trauma, coping mechanisms and so on. The conversation focuses on her recent book on the subject, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, which studies community-based psychiatry and how it serves the working classes in three global cities. Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in English at Wadham College. Her most recent book is Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, published by Cambridge University Press in December 2021. Her second monograph, What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Stanford, 2014) won the British Academy prize in English Literature in 2015. Mukherjee's other publications include Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (Routledge, 2007) and the collections of essays she has edited, namely A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture (with Laura Marcus, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) and After Lacan (Cambridge UP, 2018). Mukherjee has published in competitive peer-reviewed journals, including PMLA, MLQ, Contemporary Literature, Parallax, and the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and sits on the editorial boards of several international journals. At present, Mukherjee has two books under contract. She is writing A Very Short Introduction to Postcolonial Literature in the widely circulated VSI series (Oxford UP, 2023) and co-editing (with Ato Quayson) a collaborative volume titled Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP, 2022). Image: © 2022 Saronik Bosu Music used in promotional material: ‘Avec Toi' by Dana Boulé. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To celebrate Women's History Month #WHM, our host Edoardo Tancioni interviews Angela Mwai, Chief, Human Rights and Social Inclusion Unit at UN-Habitat. Angela shares how gender-transformative climate-smart solutions can drive sustainable urban development, stressing the importance of putting communities first to promote inclusion and resilience for the people we serve. Websites: www.unhabitat.org Hashtags: #CapitalMusings | #WHM Leave a ReviewThanks for listening! If you found the episode useful, please spread the word about this new show on Twitter mentioning https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funcdf.us1.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D565a555b66f6c4de99f3bd48a%26id%3D41770e0ed0%26e%3D017f46cadf&data=04%7C01%7Cfernando.zarauz%40uncdf.org%7C436c8e936a144a6af1b808d9faba243a%7Cb3e5db5e2944483799f57488ace54319%7C0%7C0%7C637816500258542558%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=rU%2F%2F8%2Fvjq1OKMe%2Ff%2Fuyi38U%2FH0xYpK3AlfiWV6gyvYc%3D&reserved=0 (#CapitalMusings), or leave us a review on iTunes.  Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover our podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how: 

Ankhi Mukherjee talks about that looks at the subject of psychoanalysis as a product of social and cultural processes, and thereby reorients concepts of parental and familial bonds, trauma, coping mechanisms and so on. The conversation focuses on her recent book on the subject, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, which studies […]

Budget 2022 has been a mixed bag for many, while it clearly aimed at growth (which is good) it also has an ugly side while it ignored the battered middle & poor classes - did nothing to revive mass employment or manufacturing and did not even acknowledge that the economy is in deep crisis. In Part 2 of our Budget Special - we unbox what this budget means. Thanks to Kuvera for making this episode possible. Download the free Kuvera App here - https://bit.ly/3qXAoYa ****************************************************

Driving WASH systems change starts with mapping the system. Listen to this podcast (7 mins) with Sam Drabble of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor sharing his experiences with measuring sanitation systems. Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor has created a Sector Functionality Framework for urban water and sanitation as a diagnostic tool and as a way of visualising elements (or building blocks) of the sanitation system. The tool was developed and applied in Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia. Sam Drabble is the acting Head of Evaluation, Research & Learning at WSUP. What has inspired the development of the Sector Functionality Framework? This course was created for the WASH Systems Academy course 'Driving WASH systems change'. For more information see https://www.ircwash.org/wash-systems-academy

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What makes a "book of the century"? And who gets to decide which books make the cut? Over the past two seasons of Literate, we have been asking these questions while reading through the New York Public Library's 1995 list of the books of the century. Each episode, we explore one book from that list and why it matters. This week, however, we do something a little different. We look back over our episodes and discuss the criteria that have emerged for what makes a book of the century. Plus, we tackle some tricky questions about the value of literary classics, canons, and "books of the century". It is our great pleasure to also feature two experts on this episode. First, we interview Ankhi Mukherjee, who is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford. She offers erudite insights into why the classic still matters in a world marked by competing cultural values. Ankhi is the author of the award-winning book What is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon, and her next book, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, is coming out later this year. Later, we interview Lynn Lobash, who is the Associate Director of Reader Services at the New York Public Library. Lynn gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the process of making reading lists like the one our podcast explores. Having worked at the NYPL for eighteen years, she also explains how the approach to making these lists has changed over time. Today, the reading lists that she makes, and those produced by a staff that she trains across the library's 92 locations, are far more "reader centered".  -- For more on the show visit literatepodcast.com Get in touch: @literatepodcast (Twitter) or literatepodcast@gmail.com

A conversation with Dr. Ash Barker who has been serving in underserved urban neighborhoods for nearly three decades. He is co-CEO of Seedbeds an organization committed to developing leaders in Birmingham, England.

Kuala Lumpur has over 30,000 families that earn below RM2,200 who are also in need of basic necessities. Hawati Abdul Hamid, Senior Research Associate at the Khazanah Research Institute, tells us what immediate assistance should be afforded to them with the extension of MCO 2.0 and what longer-term solutions should be considered. Image Credit: Try_my_best / Shutterstock.com

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This episode we’re reading Sociology Non-Fiction! We discuss the differences between sociology and psychology, what Karl Marx and Aziz Ansari have in common, the over-educated but kind-of-broke worker, and the difficulties of reading books that make us both sad and angry. Plus: Pandemic Monkey Brains! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner Things We Read (or tried to read) From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks (this is better than Matthew implied in the episode, it is worth reading) Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon Other Media We Mentioned The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshona Zuboff Disasters: A Sociological Approach by Kathleen Tierney The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification by Randall Collins Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity by Elizabeth Hallam, Glennys Howarth, Jenny Hockey The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlamn Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll  Death of Sandra Bland (Wikipedia) Food Mirages in Guelph, Ontario: The Impacts of Limited Food Accessibility and Affordability on Low-income Residents by Benjamin Reeve (not mentioned during the episode, but this is someone’s actual sociology thesis that Matthew thinks is neat) Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication by Nancy M. Henley (Amanda meant to mention this book but forgot!) Links, Articles, and Things Where Do Librarians Come From? Examining Educational Diversity in Librarianship by Rachel Ivy Clarke (I think this is way less humanities-focussed than our program was…) Michel Foucault (Wikipedia) Dr. Thomas Kemple Readers' Advisory for Library Staff (Facebook Group) JUMPSUIT - “Jumpsuit: how to make a personal uniform for the end of capitalism” Code Switch (NPR Podcast) Louder Than A Riot (NPR Podcast) According to Need (99% Invisible Podcast) Sabrina and Friends: Answers in Progress How Conspiracy Theories Work (a good example of a video showing the research process) Trader Joe's (Wikipedia) What does it mean to be working class in Canada? (Macleans article) 15 Sociology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation by Oluwakemi M. Balogun W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America edited by by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs &  Scott Kurashige Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims by Hussein Kesvani I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and The Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles by Rocío Rosales Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Venkatesh Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Watch us Stream! Our Twitch channel - Fridays in January, 9pm Eastern Our YouTube channel - Recordings of streams Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 19th when we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021! Then on Tuesday, February 2nd, just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ll be doing our annual romance fiction episode and talking about the genre of Regency Romance!

Soup kitchens help the urban poor gain access to food, water and basic necessities. But despite higher demand in the past year, they have faced hurdles in their operations including a shortage of volunteers. We speak with Datuk Munirah Abdul Hamid how PERTIWI has been coping, and what people can do to help.

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Dr. Don Davis, President of The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) with World Impact, discusses some amazing true stories of how God has used TUMI in transforming people. The Urban Ministry InstituteKansas Navigators WebsiteNote: The opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Navigators (c) or the Kansas Communities Ministry.

Dr. Don Davis, President of TUMI with World Impact, shares the ministry of TUMI and how discipleship best occurs in the context in a body of believers in the local church. He also shares some of the practical aspects of the seminary training offered by TUMI and how it is very flexible and useful for many different churches. Part 2 of 6. The Urban Ministry InstituteKansas Navigators WebsiteNote: The opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Navigators (c) or the Kansas Communities Ministry.

In this first of six episodes, Dr. Don Davis, President of The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) shares his vision of reaching the urban poor, including those in prison, for Christ. The goal of TUMI is to multiple pastors and lay leaders with seminary training, even for those without the skills to read. TUMI has been multiplying workers in the most dangerous fields for 25 years. The Urban Ministry InstituteKansas Navigators WebsiteNote: The opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Navigators (c) or the Kansas Communities Ministry.

How Steve seeks to bring transformation to lives and living standards in an urban poor context of East Asia. An article from Good News in Full, Billions magazine September - December 2020 for more Billions content visit billions.omf.org

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 33:Rakhi and Marco's social enterprise MicroHomeSolutionsMore on social enterprise and other things we discussed:Grameen BankBanker to the Poor by Grameen Bank's founder Muhammad YunusAshoka FellowsRhodes ScholarshipA Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack KornfieldTeaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire by Thomas DeLongFollow us on Instagram for more on Rakhi and everything we mentioned in this episode!

The urban poor stand a very high risk of being infected by COVID-19, and this issue is compounded by the fact that on average people in this group suffer from weak immune systems. Today’s show covers some of the reasons for this double-whammy, such as work environments, living conditions, and diet.

Africa is undergoing a digital transformation, helping the region to weather some the pandemic's negative consequences. What opportunities exist to accelerate Africa's adoption of digital and mobile technologies? Host Judd Devermont is joined by Dr. Amani Abou-Zeid (African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy), Ilana Cohen (GSMA), and Greg Cohen (Asoko Insight) to discuss the Covid-19 challenge and GSMA’s report, “Digital Solutions for the Urban Poor.” Separately, Judd, Greg, and Ilana also review President Museveni’s approach to the pandemic and developments in Madagascar. Background Reading: Digital Solutions for the urban Poor - GSMA  Uganda: Driving inclusive socio-economic progress through mobile-enabled digital transformation - GSMA Mobile money recommendations to central banks in response to COVID-19 - GSMA Virus exposes gaping holes in Africa’s health systems - Reuters The Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa (2020-2030)

 Many researchers have suggested that increased sleep at night translates into improved working outcomes, such as higher productivity. But while these researchers have often focused on settings where sleep quality is high, workers in many developing countries suffer from low sleep quality due to factors such as noise, heat, and mosquitoes. In this VoxDev talk, Gautam Rao and Frank Schilbach discuss an innovative experiment that targeted increased sleep among low-income workers in Chennai, India. Fascinatingly, they find that increased sleep at night did not have a positive effect on a range of outcomes including work, decision-making, and health. But can naps at work do the trick?

Around the world, one and a half billion people live in the slums of megacities like Manila, Calcutta, and Sao Paulo. Viv Grigg has lived, planted churches, and brought the kingdom of God to these slums for the last 40 years, and discipled thousands of other Christians to do the same. But its not been an easy ride. Its taken Viv years to work out all the ways Jesus wants to transform people’s lives. We’re talking with Viv today about how he discovered the whole gospel of Jesus Christ, and saw the kingdom of God come in urban poor areas. QUESTIONS? Email us at ask@zealpodcast.org SUBSCRIBE to this channel for more interviews with inspiring followers of Jesus. Follow ZEAL on Instagram - http://zealpodcast.org/instagram Follow ZEAL on Facebook - http://zealpodcast.org/facebook Full video of interviews on Youtube - http://zealpodcast.org/youtube Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, and Spotify here - http://zealpodcast.org/itunes http://zealpodcast.org/googleplay http://zealpodcast.org/spotify Video from “Poor Wise Man”, produced by David Stewart Media https://www.davidstewartmedia.com/poorwisemanfilm Music from “Rain” by Kings Kaleidoscope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb72bx0hqa4 OTHER RESOURCES FROM VIV GRIGG "Poor Wise Man" Documentary https://www.davidstewartmedia.com/poorwisemanfilm "Companion to the Poor" by Viv Grigg https://www.amazon.ca/Companion-Poor-Christ-Urban-Slums/dp/0958201978 "Cry of the Urban Poor" by Viv Grigg https://www.amazon.ca/Cry-Urban-Poor-Viv-Grigg/dp/0912552700 "Kiwinomics" by Viv Grigg https://www.amazon.ca/Kiwinomics-Conversations-Zealands-Economic-Soul-ebook/dp/B01IDV1CZ4 Masters of Arts in Transformational Urban Leadership http://matul.org Urban Leaders Foundation http://urbanleaders.org

With rapid urbanisation and rising inequality in Indonesia, levels of urban poverty have also increased, and people living and working in informal circumstances face ongoing threats of eviction. Periodically, the urban poor’s activism to defend and advance their interests has taken centre stage in Indonesian politics, never more so than in the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial elections, when the issue of evictions became entwined with Islamist opposition to the incumbent governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama or Ahok, in the massive mobilisation against him. What is the lived experience of urban poverty in Indonesia, and what forms of activism do the urban poor engage in? How have various Indonesian governments responded, and what prospects do the urban poor have to carve out a place for themselves in Indonesia’s cities? In this week’s Talking Indonesia podcast, Dr Dave McRae discusses these issues with Dr Ian Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Terrorism and Count-terrorism Studies at Murdoch University and the author of The Politics of Protection Rackets in Post-New Order Indonesia: Coercive Capital, Authority and Street Politics. The Talking Indonesia podcast is co-hosted by Dr Dave McRae from the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute, Dr Jemma Purdey from Monash University, Dr Charlotte Setijadi from the Singapore Management University and Dr Dirk Tomsa from La Trobe University. Look out for a new Talking Indonesia podcast every fortnight. Photo credit: Rivan Awal Lingga for Antara Foto

In this episode, we talk with Heather Schofield from the University of Pennsylvania about her paper “Sleepless in Chennai: The Economic and Health Effects of Reducing Sleep Deprivation Among the Urban Poor”. In this paper, Heather and her co-authors Pedro Bessone, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach and Mattie Toma examine the impact of interventions that aim to … Continue reading Sleep Quality and Productivity with Heather Schofield →

Dr. Sudeep Mohandas, Co-Founder of I First International talks to Peter Muthaura, from the Human Needs Project in Nairobi, Kenya.

Beth Bruno and Veronica Squires talk about how cities are making us sick, the toll it takes on anyone, let alone those with compounding issues, and what happens when the dream does not play out the way you imagined it would. Topics Covered: 1. Good Samaritan Health Center Atlanta https://goodsamatlanta.org/ 2. John Perkins and CCDA https://ccda.org/ 3. Nichole Nordeman's The Unmaking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQkHD15J7HI Connect with Veronica: Find her book Facebook Instagram Connect with Beth: Sign up for my email Instagram Facebook Twitter Website Book

Today our brother Bayu is sharing his insights on our society today and how we can be an urban poor society without we even knowing it. Enjoy the podcast.

Dwight N. Hopkins, the Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, lectures on the tangible lessons from Martin Luther King Jr. on the relationships among race, economic hardship, and theology. Dwight N. Hopkins, the Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and scholars from the Fuller community lecture on Martin Luther King Jr. and the social, cultural, and pastoral intersections of the Black experience. Dr. Hopkins was the featured speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, January 21–25, 2019. The celebration included lectures, conversations, worship and more, and was sponsored by the William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies. Learn more: fuller.edu/pannell-center/ For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Her research covers a range of fields. She is passionately interested in the question of how ethnography generates concepts; how we might treat philosophical and literary traditions from India and other regions as generative of theoretical and practical understanding of the world; how to render the texture and contours of everyday life; and the way everyday and the event are joined together in the making of the normal and the critical. Her work on collective violence and urban transformations has appeared in many anthologies. Her most recent books are Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (2007) Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (2015) and three co-edited volumes, The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy (2014), Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium (2015) andPolitics of the Urban Poor (forthcoming). Her graduate students are working on a number of issues in different parts of the world and her work is deeply informed by her heady interactions with them."If in life, said Wittgenstein, we are surrounded by death, so to in the health of our understanding we are surrounded by madness. Rather than a forceful exclusion of this voice of madness, Wittgenstein returns us to the everyday by a gesture of waiting: 'If I have exhausted justifications I have reached bedrock, and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: This is simply what I do.' In this picture of the turned spade as indicative of a turned pen, we have the picture of what the act of writing may be in the darkness of this time. For me the love of anthropology has turned out to be an affair in which when I reach bedrock I do not break through the resistance of the other, but in this gesture of waiting I allow the knowledge of the other to mark me."Das, Veena. Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), p. 17.https://centreforethics.upce.cz/Niklas.Forsberg@upce.cz

Mark Young of Envision Philippines shares the heart of the mission site to disciple the poor communities and families in Manila. - https://www.cmalliance.org/video/watch/43377/

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things, and if we are talking about poor Americans, especially those living in big cities, what it does and says combine to function as powerfully oppressive forces that can much more likely be counted on to do harm than good. Join us as we discuss Papke's book Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor (Michigan State University Press, 2019) and learn about how law functions in the lives of poor people in the U.S. today. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians (New Press, 2004), A Peoples History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things, and if we are talking about poor Americans, especially those living in big cities, what it does and says combine to function as powerfully oppressive forces that can much more likely be counted on to do harm than good. Join us as we discuss Papke's book Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor (Michigan State University Press, 2019) and learn about how law functions in the lives of poor people in the U.S. today. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians (New Press, 2004), A Peoples History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things, and if we are talking about poor Americans, especially those living in big cities, what it does and says combine to function as powerfully oppressive forces that can much more likely be counted on to do harm than good. Join us as we discuss Papke's book Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor (Michigan State University Press, 2019) and learn about how law functions in the lives of poor people in the U.S. today. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians (New Press, 2004), A Peoples History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things, and if we are talking about poor Americans, especially those living in big cities, what it does and says combine to function as powerfully oppressive forces that can much more likely be counted on to do harm than good. Join us as we discuss Papke's book Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor (Michigan State University Press, 2019) and learn about how law functions in the lives of poor people in the U.S. today. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians (New Press, 2004), A Peoples History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things, and if we are talking about poor Americans, especially those living in big cities, what it does and says combine to function as powerfully oppressive forces that can much more likely be counted on to do harm than good. Join us as we discuss Papke's book Containment and Contagion: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor (Michigan State University Press, 2019) and learn about how law functions in the lives of poor people in the U.S. today. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians (New Press, 2004), A Peoples History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things, and if we are talking about poor Americans, especially those living in big cities, what it does and says combine to function as powerfully oppressive forces that can much more likely be counted on to do harm than good. Join us as we discuss Papke's book Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor (Michigan State University Press, 2019) and learn about how law functions in the lives of poor people in the U.S. today. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians (New Press, 2004), A Peoples History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things, and if we are talking about poor Americans, especially those living in big cities, what it does and says combine to function as powerfully oppressive forces that can much more likely be counted on to do harm than good. Join us as we discuss Papke's book Containment and Contagion: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor (Michigan State University Press, 2019) and learn about how law functions in the lives of poor people in the U.S. today. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians (New Press, 2004), A Peoples History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dwight Hopkins, Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology, preaches on the “threshold event” of baptism, Christ’s temptations, and liberating economics, politics, technology in service of the poor. This audio is a recording from Fuller’s All-Seminary Chapel on January 23, 2019. Dr. Dwight Hopkins spoke at the annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. sponsored by the William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies. This year’s theme was “The Black Church and the Urban Poor.” Learn more at https://www.fuller.edu/pannell-center/. Music at the beginning and end of this audio stream is taken from a recent album entitled REVERE I RESTORE, created and recorded by members of the Fuller community under the leadership of Ed Willmington, director of the Fred Bock Institute of Music at Fuller’s Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio.

QUESTIONS? Email us at ask@zealpodcast.org SUBSCRIBE to this channel for more interviews with inspiring followers of Jesus. Follow ZEAL on Instagram - http://zealpodcast.org/instagram Follow ZEAL on Facebook - http://zealpodcast.org/facebook Full video of interviews on Youtube - http://zealpodcast.org/youtube Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and Google Play here - http://zealpodcast.org/itunes http://zealpodcast.org/googleplay *Names changed and audio only for confidentiality reasons. Maria and Ryan are both in their twenties and were both led by God to live, pray, and share Jesus in a slum called Royal Village. Intro art by Jemcah (http://creativedustart.com). Intro music by Itlo (Track 28 from SHUA beat tape - http://itloseph.com). RESOURCES MoveIn - a movement of regular Christians prayerfully moving in among the unreached urban poor. More info at http://movein.to "Companion to the Poor" by Viv Grigg - http://a.co/a0ItOY9 "Cry of the Urban Poor" by Viv Grigg - http://a.co/9drQCbW

Ash Barker & Graham Hill discuss serving Jesus among the urban poor. The GlobalChurch Project, podcast episode 4.From 2002 to 2013, Ash Barker with wife Anji and their children lived in Klong Toey, the largest slum in Bangkok. The Barkers shared life there, developing poverty alleviation initiatives, local leaders, and churches to transform the neighbourhood through Jesus.Until October 2013, Ash Barker was the founding director of Urban Neighbours Of Hope (UNOH), which the Barkers started in Springvale (Melbourne, Australia) in 1993. UNOH now has eight teams of Christian workers loving God and neighbours in some of the neediest urban neighbourhoods in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Bangkok.After decades of leading and founding UNOH, the Barkers stepped out of UNOH and Klong Toey to move to Birmingham, UK, in November 2014. The Barkers are again immersed in the life of an urban poor neighbourhood – this time a Birmingham public housing estate – to seek transformation through Jesus there.An inspiring speaker and lecturer, Ash Barker is also the author of eight books including ‘Make Poverty Personal’, ‘Slum Life Rising’ and ‘Risky Compassion.’ He completed his PhD addressing a Christian response to the rise of urban slums (MCD University of Divinity).After 25 years of urban mission in Melbourne and Bangkok, Ash Barker with wife Anji and son Aiden are now immersed in the life of Winson Green, Birmingham, UK. Ash was the founding director of Urban Neighbours of Hope (unoh.org, 1993-2013), Surrender Conferences (surrender.org, 2003-2009), and is the current director of Micah Global’s International Society for Urban Mission (newurbanworld.org, 2012-current).

Jasmine Burton, an inspirational 24-year-old running a startup in Africa, hopes to improve women’s health via redesign of water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure - sparking the foundation of Wish for Wash. In this episode, you’ll learn how a variety of waste management gaps exist despite how far the western world has advanced the human experience. This creates an odd disparity between knowing that billions of people defecate in buckets and bags, yet are using smartphones to WhatsApp message each other.  Jasmine speaks on the challenges of making the cost per unit to be under $20, and how to make it affordable to the low-income communities that need the product most.   Key Takeaways: [00:10] According to the UN, 6 billion people have access to mobile phones. Yet, only 4.5 billion have access to working toilets. [01:15] Jasmine’s senior design team won the InVenture competition for their design of an inexpensive mobile toilet. [02:55] Jasmine explains her journey from Georgia to Zambia, and how her company is inspired by how access to toilets hinders women’s advancement worldwide. [04:30] Her team was the first all-female team to win the Georgia Tech InVenture competition. [05:00] At the end of 2014, she founded Wish for Wash and moved to Zambia to join a global health initiative, and now self-identifies as a “toilet designer”. [07:45] The need for healthy food is much easier to communicate than the need for good sanitation, making it difficult to convince people to change their behavior. [11:21] There’s nothing “wrong” with the way western civilization deals with sanitation and waste. However, there are opportunities to recycle waste rather than just moving it away from people. [13:15] The “sanitation value chain” explains the aspirational sanitation experience - capture, contain, transport, and repurpose. [14:15] Wish for Wash is looking at the other end of the value chain. Rather than thinking of how to profit from waste, they are focusing on capture and containment. [15:00] Their toilet design is modular, allowing for both sitting and squatting. They are also prototyping a manual bidet for communities who practice washing rather than wiping. [17:25] Access to affordable manufacturing is the current barrier to entry, especially allowing them to make quick and frequent iterations. [24:30] One of the biggest lessons learned in this venture is to practice patience. [26:00] There’s a challenge in selling both a product and a behavioral change at the same time. [27:15] They are exploring military applications, among other contexts for using the toilet. [28:12] Jasmine speaks to her big goal this year for Wish for Wash. [30:00] In the future, they would like to find a less invasive way to collect data, such as a mobile app. [32:39] Supporting the cause can be as simple as having a conversation with Jasmine and her team. [33:20] Charlie shares his final thoughts on the 3 ways he wants you to consider this episode.   Mentioned in This Episode: InVenture Wish for Wash Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor

Rural-to-urban migration in Africa is increasing at a fast pace, fuelled principally by the prospects of a better life in cities. Many such migrants face challenges of unemployment and poor housing when they arrive in cities and end up living in poor neighbourhoods such as informal settlements (or slums). Slums are not just the first destination of recent migrants; some slum residents have lived there for decades. Another compounding factor is high fertility, which contributes to the rapid population growth in urban informal settlements in African cities. Living conditions in slums are very poor; there is overcrowding, poor sanitation, and lack of health facilities. As a result, health outcomes are generally poor. In her presentation, Professor Madise will look at some health outcomes (child health, maternal health and HIV status) of rural-to-urban migrants and residents of informal urban areas in selected African countries to demonstrate the disadvantage in health of such residents. She will make comparisons with other subgroups (e.g. non-slum urban and rural residents) and draw on some specific examples from her recent work in Nairobi City, Kenya, where she has shown that maternal mortality is 25% higher than in other parts of the country, and where the HIV prevalence is twice as high compared with the rest of the country. She will also discuss interventions for tackling the problem of ill-health amongst the urban poor and the challenges in implementing such interventions.

September 15, 2015 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1NzRbYu. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. The achievement gap GPS -3.23% between affluent and poor students gets worse every summer as the less fortunate forget much of what they learned during the school year, a phenomenon known as the “summer slide.” Karim Abouelnaga, the young social entrepreneur who launched Practice Makes Perfect, explains, “The achievement gap is damaging to our society at a basic level. In 2009, McKinsey & Company estimated that the gap was costing our economy $310-$525 billion in GDP each year, which is the equivalent of a permanent national recession. The achievement gap is likely to widen as our income gap widens.” “Our nation’s summer school system is broken. It’s well-intentioned but, as currently conceived, it doesn’t work. In reality, summer school is punitive; it’s for students who failed to learn enough to be promoted. It’s taught by teachers, many of whom are burned out from the previous 10 months. They put low-performing students together in a class to struggle. Students are assigned worksheets for tests that don’t really matter. They’re not engaged. They merely “do their time” in hopes of getting promoted and the cycle will likely repeat next year,” he observes. Practice Makes Perfect operates in New York City’s toughest schools, where Abouelnaga observes, “Fewer than half the students in summer school pass end-of-summer reading and math tests and yet they will be promoted anyway because the city’s promotion policy also factors in attendance and classwork.” The Cornell-educated Abouelnaga is proud of the program he’s created to address the problems he’s observed. “At Practice Makes Perfect, we have re-imagined the summer learning experience. We work closely with schools to operate summer school programs for them,” he says. Please consider whether a friend or colleague might benefit from this piece and, if so, share it.

Silvia Pasquetti (University of Cambridge) Abstract This paper builds on recent theorizing about refugee camps as urban sites and about the relationships between the urban poor and refugees (e.g. Agier, Malkki and Bauman 2002; Sanyal 2013) to connect and compare two localities of urban marginality across the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank: a West Bank refugee camp and the Arab districts of an Israeli city. Drawing on ethnographic research within and across the camp and the city it traces the historical and ongoing ties between Palestinian refugees and urban minority citizens while exploring their differing sense of injustice, politics, and morality. I argue that a focus on place (camp versus city) and legal-political status (refugees versus minority citizens) alone cannot explain how and why, despite their ethnonational and kin ties, these two segments of poor Palestinians differ in how they perceive and articulate issues of survival and politics. Explaining these differences requires exploring the forms of sociolegal control they experience in their everyday lives. Specifically, it requires studying their distinct relationships with the Israeli state’s coercive agencies and, for the refugees, their protracted relationship with humanitarian organizations. The paper concludes by calling for more comparative research on the role of agencies of control in the articulation of practices and meanings of survival and politics in localities of urban marginality. A focus on the interplay between control and space can help bring the urban poor and refugees in the same analytic framework thus enriching ongoing urban sociology debates about urban marginality.

(November 19, 2010) Dr J speaks at Gordon College's convocation on the topics of marriage, sex, and social justice.  Her emphasis is on parenting and the way these decisions can positively (or adversely) affect child development. Dr J's first lecture at Gordon College, "Sexual Liberation among the Urban Poor," is available here.

(November 18, 2010) Dr J speaks at Gordon College on "The Sexual Liberation of the Urban Poor."  Arguably, when you examine how it plays out, not only is it not liberating--it's highly detrimental in many areas.  So what can we do?  How we can help? The following day, Dr J spoke at Gordon on Marriage, Sex, and Social Justice--that podcast is available here.

Paul Smedberg interviews Yoshio Hall, MD, about his study on CKD and the urban poor.

Paul Smedberg interviews Yoshio Hall, MD, about his study on CKD and the urban poor.

Paul Smedberg interviews Yoshio Hall, MD, about his study on CKD and the urban poor.

Paul Smedberg interviews Yoshio Hall, MD, about his study on CKD and the urban poor.

Chris Gondek interviews Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, author of Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor.

Chris Gondek interviews Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, author of Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor.