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Catherine Kingfisher
Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so…
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An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion…
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In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in…
In the United States, a majority of the poor and those who work with the poor are women. How do they perceive their place in society? How do they assess…
Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking countries that have implemented welfare restructuring: the United States, Canada, Britain, and New Zealand.
Examines the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform. Explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Demonstrates how…
Feminist anthropology emerged in the 1970s as a much-needed corrective to the discipline’s androcentric biases. It has been at the forefront of developments that have revolutionized not only anthropology, but…
