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URBAN POVERTY IN THE WAKE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER: REHABILITATION, RESILIENCE AND TYPHOON HAIYAN (YOLANDA) This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary for the success and scaling up of these strategies. Using the case study of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in the Philippines, the strongest typhoon ever to make landfall, the book aims to draw out policy recommendations relevant for other middle- and lower- income countries facing similar urban environmental challenges. Humans are increasingly living in
densely populated and highly vulnerable areas, often coastal. This increased density of human settlements leads to increased material damage and high death tolls, and this vulnerability is often exacerbated by climate change. This book focuses on urban population risk, vulnerability to disasters, resilience to environmental shocks, and adaptation in relation to paths in and out of poverty. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, including primary
GENDER, SUBJECTIVITY, AND CULTURAL WORK: THE CLASSICAL MUSIC PROFESSION What is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender, racial, and class inequalities in the classical music profession? What happens when musicians become entrepreneurial and think of themselves as a product that needs to be sold and marketed? Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural
Work explores these and other questions by drawing on innovative, empirical research on the working lives of classical musicians in Germany and the UK. Christina Scharff examines a range of timely issues such as the gender, racial, and class inequalities that characterise the cultural and creative industries; the ways in which entrepreneurialism – as an ethos to work on and improve the self – is lived out; and the subjective experiences of precarious work in so-called ‘creative cities’. Thus, this book not only adds to our understanding of the working
survey data from victims and those charged with overseeing the relief effort in the Philippines, Urban Poverty in the Wake of Environmental Disaster has significant implications for disaster risk reduction as it relates to the urban poor and is highly recommended for scholars and practitioners of development studies, environment studies, and disaster relief and risk reduction. Urban Poverty in the Wake of Environmental Disaster By Maria Ela Atienza, Pauline Eadie, May Tan-Mullins. ISBN 9781138629998, (hardback), 192pp @ £92.00. Available 22 February 2019.
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lives of artists and creatives, but also makes broader contributions by exploring how precarity, neoliberalism, and inequalities shape subjective experiences.
Contributing to a range of
contemporary debates around cultural work, Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies. Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work by Christina Scharff. ISBN 9781138942561, (hardback), 224pp @ £84.00.
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EVENTS 16 JANUARY 2019
Resource Recovery from Waste Conference 2019
The final conference for the Resource Recovery from Waste programme will bring together five years of research to highlight the relevance of resource recovery for a clean, low-carbon and resource-efficient economy. The conference will showcase the key achievements of the programme and aim to highlight where changes in policy will be needed to realise the full benefits envisaged for the UK economy, society and environment. It will also look forward to identify future challenges and research needed in this area.
rrfw.org.uk/results/events/resource- recovery-from-waste-conference-2019/
13 MARCH 2019
IFS Public Talk: Is it fair to charge £9,250 for university tuition fees?
How much will you really pay for university? Does that depend on where and what you study? Are there any alternative ways to fund higher education? And how would these affect what the education system should be trying to achieve? This Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Public Talk, jointly organised with the University of Manchester, will be given by Jack Britton, Senior Research Economist at the IFS, and will give an economist’s perspective on the ongoing tuition fee debate. The talk will be held in the University Place Building at the University of Manchester. www.eventbrite.
co.uk/e/is-it-fair-to-charge-9250-for- university-tuition-fees-manchester-talk- ifs-tickets-53091063801
13-24 MAY 2019
STEPS Centre 2019 Summer School
Applications are invited from doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working in fields around development studies, science and technology studies, innovation and policy studies, and who are interested in transdisciplinary methods and the politics of the environment. The Summer School is a two-week immersive course on theories and practical approaches to sustainability, through creative, interactive and participatory learning. Participants will explore the theme of pathways to sustainability through a mixture of workshops, lectures, outdoor events and focused interaction with STEPS Centre members. The Summer School takes place on the University of Sussex campus, near Brighton.
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