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Hope and Household Poverty in Tanzania: Does Intergenerational Transmission of Hope Matter?
DownloadFall 2023
Development economists increasingly recognize the significance of hope in poverty alleviation efforts. However, there is still a paucity of research examining the relationship between hope and household poverty, and in particular, the role of hope that is transmitted across generations. This...
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2023-11-06
SSHRC PDG awarded 2024: This project builds on existing research partnerships in a rural town of Alberta (population 7,000) and seeks to establish new partnerships with diverse, intersectoral community organizations. As a result of these challenges, the Town is keen to try alternative and novel...
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2023-11-06
SSHRC PDG awarded 2024: Canada is facing a housing crisis. Housing prices are rising, as are mortgage and rental costs. Housing stock is being transformed by financial interests from places where people live, into investments from which shareholders expect to make returns. Law is implicated...
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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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2020-01-01
Graham, Beth, Vlaskalic, Daniela
"Holed up in a washroom in Vancouver’s International Airport, Cindy and Crystal are fighting for their lives. Crystal has a belly full of heroine and a limited time to get it out of her system and Cindy is trying to keep her violent drug smuggling boyfriend at bay. A dark comedy about class,...
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2020-09-21
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: Adopting a community-based participatory research approach, this project will use a comparative case study methodology to examine how an inclusive economy approach is being used to inform economic development in Edmonton (urban) and Drayton Valley (rural). This will be...
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2019-10-11
SSHRC IG awarded 2020: The Great Canadian Class Study (GCCS) aims to reinvigorate the study of economic inequality and class stratification in Canada -- a vital undertaking in light of ongoing economic and social change --through a large-scale mixed-methods project. Does social class function as...
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2017-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: Although bankruptcy should not be a side effect of sickness, many Canadians are pushed over this financial precipice by an illness or injury. Public programs, such as the federal employment insurance sickness benefit and provincial workers' compensation programs, are...
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Fall 2017
Former foster youth often experience an array of serious challenges during their young adult years. Problems such as homelessness, school drop-out, and mental health and drug problems have been attributed to the requirement that foster youth lose their supports from child welfare as they approach...