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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 2Poverty
- 1Active social policy
- 1Alberta
- 1Anti-poverty organizing
- 1Critical discourse analysis
- 1EndPovertyEdmonton
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Organizing Against Poverty in Edmonton: A Case Study of EndPovertyEdmonton Movement Organization
DownloadSpring 2022
This study examines the antipoverty efforts and social movement-building approach of EndPovertyEdmonton (EPE). In the context of poverty, social movement organizing refers to groups of actors working together as a collective and in a coordinated manner to change fundamental structures that...
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Outside the city walls: the construction of poverty in Alberta's Income and Employment Supports Act
DownloadFall 2010
Goa, Birte Hannah Katherine Ruth
Considerable research has been done on conceptions of poverty and on the welfare state; however, there is little research into the relationship between the two – the ways in which poverty discourses shape welfare states and how transitions in welfare states influence poverty discourses. Using...