Member Projects

 

Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members

Filter by: All | Economic Crisis | Poverty discourse | Inequality | Difference: | Places: N. America, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia

Low income working families and public policy

October 29

Jennifer Romich, University of Washington, Department of Social Welfare Jennifer Romich is an Associate Professor of Social Welfare at the...

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The Impact of Poverty Mapping on the Geography of Development

October 29

Mona Atia, George Washington University Mona Atia is assistant professor of geography and international affairs at The George Washington...

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Migration Politics: Transnational Rights, Religion, and Labor in Indonesia

October 29

Rachel Silvey, University of Toronto My research focuses on the politics of migration and transnationalism with particular emphasis on the...

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Spatializing diversification, class and hope in the global city

October 29

Junjia Ye, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Urban Geography The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany My...

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Negotiating poverty and privilege: Middle class place-making and poverty politics

October 26

Victoria Lawson, Sarah Elwood and Sam Nowak University of Washington We explore processes of relational place-making to investigate how Middle...

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Intelligent Trust: Placing Trust and Mistrust in Interfaith Europe

October 26

Shana Cohen, Woolf Institute This project, led by myself and Ed Kessler, examines how recession and austerity measures in Europe have affected...

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Solidarity in diversity

October 26

Nick Schuermans, University of Leuven & University of Antwerp My current research fits within the DieGem research project on solidarity in...

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Subjectivities of inequality in South African cities

October 26

Richard Ballard, Gauteng City-Region Observatory, University of the Witwatersrand and University of Johannesburg While many cities around the world...

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Negotiating spaces of care: geographies of survival and zones of encounter

October 26

Christiana Miewald, Simon Fraser University Eugene McCann, Simon Fraser University Our project focuses on relational constructions of poverty in...

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