The just city for whom? Re-conceiving active citizenship for lone mothers in Canada

Gurstein, Penny; Vilches, Silvia

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2010.485829

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“…Purcell (2002, p.101) describes this as "an argument for profoundly reworking both the social relations of capitalism and the current structure of liberal-democratic citizenship". As Gurstein and Vilches (2010) also make clear the 'unjust city' abounds in western developed contexts as much as in developing country contexts. It is full of impediments (e.g.…”

Section: The Just Citymentioning

confidence: 89%

Planning the Climate-just City

Steele

MacCallum

Byrne

et al. 2012

International Planning Studies

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Issues of urban equity have long been linked to urban planning. Yet in practice the quest for the 'just city', defined in terms of democracy, diversity, difference and sustainability, has proven to be highly problematic. Drawing on examples from the Australian urban context, we argue that the imperative of climate change adds urgency to the longstanding equity agenda of planning in cities. In our normative quest for the climate-just city we offer a conceptual and analytical framework for integrating the principles of climate justice and equity into urban planning thinking and practice.

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Section: The Just Citymentioning

confidence: 89%

Planning the Climate-just City

Steele

MacCallum

Byrne

et al. 2012

International Planning Studies

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“…The harsh realities of a life in poverty can have dramatic and sometimes devastating effects on aspirations, education, nutrition, health and well-being, housing, and safety for an entire family (Gurstein & Vilches, 2010; Parsons, 2008; Raphael, 2007). An Atlantic Canada-wide study of single mothers acknowledged that labor market conditions militated against them being able to support their families without turning to income support (Barber & Clow, 2013).…”

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Complexities of Negotiating Power When Re-Constructing Stories About Lone Mothers

Gustafson

Swan

Gillingham

et al. 2015

Affilia

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Building social inclusion was the primary theoretical and practice goal of a group of researcher/ academics who partnered with lone mother research assistants in participatory action research. One outcome was the creation of a video recording that was based on a day in the life of a lone mother receiving income support. The work of creating and sharing the video recording became the lightning rod that focused the partners' attention on the complexities of negotiating power in the well-intentioned but problematic struggle to reconstruct stories about lone mothers. The distinct voices of individual authors are honored in this shared story about our journey. Keywords lone mothers, participatory methods, power relations, women in poverty Brenda: How dare all these academic types-you know who you are-take my life, my horrible wretched life, and use it to further your agenda. My life of poverty and destitution, my life of suffering, my life of having to eke out an existence for me and my children, my life of frustration, my life of sadnessof not being able to adequately provide for my children, and use it to write papers and show people who should already know how absolutely gut-wrenching-awful poverty is, to realize that they maybe would/ should think before they act. My Story/Our Story/Shared StoryDiana: Researchers who engage in studies with (or about) single/lone 1 mothers' experiences are implicated in the construction of those stories. The academy and published works are often the institutional spaces where these stories are collected, scrutinized, deconstructed, and disseminated for wider consumption and often without the benefit of lone mothers' active and meaningful

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“…Want relaties met sociaal werkers vergen tijd en energie. Zeker voor vrouwen die uitgesloten zijn van civiele en sociale rechten; voor hen betekent dit soms het equivalent van een halftijdse job (Gurstein & Vilches, 2010). Dit werd duidelijk op de dag dat ik Ella hielp met haar verhuis 9 en ze langs de sociale organisatie wilde gaan waar ze vaak hulp kreeg met papieren en informatie.…”

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‘Zijn Vlamingen dan ook niet goed geïntegreerd?’ - Een kruispuntanalyse van integratievertogen in Vlaanderen vanuit het standpunt van moeders zonder papieren

Brouckaert

2014

Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies

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‘Are Flemish people then also not well integrated?’ An intersectional analysis of integration discourses in Flanders from the standpoint of undocumented, single mothers’ is based on a longitudinal ethnographic study of ten undocumented migrant women who were residing in Flanders before and during the second regularisation period in 2009. This article deals with their confrontation with the regularisation criteria that were launched by the government in September 2009. From the point of view of single, undocumented mothers, the criterion of sustainable local anchoring relates to an ambivalent policy objective, which sometimes has contradictory outcomes. Authorities conceptualize integration largely through participation in networks, and in addition, networks are understood in a specific manner, which may disadvantage solidarity and in particular that in the lives of single, undocumented mothers. This article contrasts the way in which the authorities understand ‘networks’ to what participation in networks may mean to ten undocumented mothers, and indicates potential consequences of these different visions for social cohesion and social solidarity.

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The just city for whom? Re-conceiving active citizenship for lone mothers in Canada

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Planning the Climate-just City

Planning the Climate-just City

Complexities of Negotiating Power When Re-Constructing Stories About Lone Mothers

‘Zijn Vlamingen dan ook niet goed geïntegreerd?’ - Een kruispuntanalyse van integratievertogen in Vlaanderen vanuit het standpunt van moeders zonder papieren

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