| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 330 pages.) illustrations (some color), map |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE • The Canadian North -- Regional Introduction: The Canadian North -- 1 It's a Tough Game: Navigating Housing Monopolies in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories -- 2 Responding to Homelessness in Yellowknife: Pushing the Ocean Back with a Spoon -- 3 An "Urban" Issue, and the Issue with "Urban": Contextualizing Homelessness in Whitehorse -- 4 Homelessness, Mobility, and Migration from the James Bay Region -- 5 A Different Kind of "Ecological Refugee": Land Claims, Migration, and Inequalities in Northern Labrador -- 6 Making Place Home: The Contradictions of Inuit Housing in a Liberal Democracy -- SECTION TWO • Alaska -- Regional Introduction: Alaska -- 7 Northern Voices on Homelessness: Engaging the Public and Promoting Inclusivity for Homeless Alaskans in Public Discourse -- 8 Differing Meanings of Housing First: Lessons Learned from a Single-Site Program Evaluation in Anchorage, Alaska -- 9 Alaska Is a Very Small Town: Moving towards an Understanding of Homelessness in the Urban North -- SECTION THREE • Greenland -- Regional Introduction: Greenland -- 10 In Search of Security: Women's Homelessness in Nuuk, Greenland -- 11 Welfare Colonialism and Geographies of Homelessness in Nuuk, Greenland -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Homelessness across the Arctic in the Shadow of COVID-19 -- Contributors |
| Summary |
"This manuscript assembles the leading scholarship in housing, homelessness and social policy in urban locales across Alaska, the Canadian North, and Greenland, examining the ways in which housing insecurity and homelessness provide a critical lens on the social dimensions of northern urbanization, and also present key considerations in the development of effective and sustainable social policy for these areas. Through various case studies and reflections across northern urban contexts, chapter contributors explore the myriad ways in which northern urban places foster new forms of community-building, health and social service provision and social inclusion for people experiencing homelessness. At the same time, the northern urban regions and community contexts included in this book have significant differences in terms of governance, scale, settler-Indigenous relations and social welfare provision--differences that provide useful and insightful comparisons in our efforts to identify commonalities and ways forward."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 22, 2024) |
| Subject |
Housing -- Canada, Northern
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Housing -- Alaska
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Housing -- Greenland
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Homelessness -- Canada, Northern
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Homelessness -- Alaska
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Homelessness -- Greenland
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
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Homelessness
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Housing
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Canada, Northern -- Social policy
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Alaska -- Social policy
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Greenland -- Social policy
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Alaska
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Greenland
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Northern Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Christensen, Julia (Writer on homelessness), editor.
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Carraher, Sally, 1981- editor.
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Hedwig, Travis H., editor.
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Arnfjord, Steven, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781487554200 |
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1487554206 |
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1487553757 |
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9781487553753 |
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