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Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian cityscapes only in the 1990's, when the Soviet criminalization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished. In spite of the host of social and economic problems confronting Russia in the demise of Soviet power, the social dislocation endured by increasing numbers of people went largely unrecognized by the state. Being homeless carries a special burden in Russia, where a permanent address is the precondition for all civil rights and social benefits and where homelessness is often regarded as a result of laziness and drinking, rather than external factors. In Needed by Nobody, the anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand offers a nuanced portrait of homelessness in St. Petersburg. Based on ethnographic work at railway stations, soup kitchens, and other places where the homeless gather, Höjdestrand describes the material and mental world of this marginalized population. They are, she observes, "not needed" in two senses. The state considers them, in effect, as noncitizens. At the same time they stand outside the traditionally intimate social networks that are the real safety net of life in post socialist Russia. As a result, they are deprived of the prerequisites for dealing with others in ways that they themselves value as "decent" and "human." Höjdestrand investigates processes of social exclusion as well as the remaining "world of waste": things, tasks, and places that are wanted by nobody else and on which "human leftovers" are forced to survive. In this bleak context, Höjdestrand takes up the intimate worlds of the homeless-their social relationships, dirt and cleanliness, and physical appearance. Her interviews with homeless people show that the indigent have a very good idea of what others think of them and that they are liable to reproduce the stigma that is attached to them even as they attempt to negotiate it. This unique and often moving portrait of life on the margins of society in the new Russia ultimately reveals how human dignity may be retained in the absence of its very preconditions.

Homelessness --- Russia (Federation) --- Social conditions --- Housing --- Poverty --- Homeless persons --- Homelessness in St Petersburg, social relationships between the homeless, st petersburg, homelessness in russia.

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Pentecostals --- Pentecôtistes --- Canada --- Church history. --- Histoire religieuse --- Church history --- Pentecôtistes --- Pentecostals - Canada. --- Canada - Church history --- North America --- migration --- 1970s --- religious aspects of migration --- Pentecostal immigrants in canada --- global religious networks --- social relationships --- religious organizations --- new translocal identities --- Pentecostalism --- Pentecostal congregations in Canada --- globalization

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This book offers an insight into the social relationships and topographies that fashioned both city life and landscape and serves as a useful counterpoise in a field that has largely focused on London. This is a book about seventeenth-century Norwich and its inhabitants. At its core are the interconnected themes of social topographies and the relationships between urban inhabitants and their environment. Cityscapes were, and are, shaped and given meaning during the practice of people's lived experiences. In return, those same urban places lend human interactions depth and quality. Social Relations and Urban Space uncovers manifold possible landscapes, including those belonging to the rich and to the poor, to men, to women, to 'strangers and foreigners', to political actors of both formal and informal means. Norwich's inhabitants witnessed the tumultuous seventeenth centuryat first hand, and their experiences were written into the landscape and immortalised in its exemplary surviving records. This book offers an insight into the social relationships and topographies that fashioned both city life and landscape and serves as a useful counterpoise in a field that has largely focused on London. FIONA WILLIAMSON is currently Senior Lecturer in History at the National University of Malaysia.

Sociology --- 1600-1699 --- Norwich (England) --- England --- Norwich. --- History --- Social life and customs --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Norwich --- Norwich (Norfolk) --- City and County of Norwich (England) --- Fiona Williamson. --- Seventeenth-century Norwich. --- city life. --- landscape. --- men. --- political actors. --- poor. --- rich. --- social relationships. --- strangers. --- urban history. --- urban topographies. --- women. --- Public spaces --- Social aspects

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Ties that Enable is written for students, providers, and advocates seeking to understand how best to improve mental health care – be it for themselves, their loved ones, their clients, or for the wider community. The authors integrate their knowledge of mental health care as researchers, teachers, and advocates and rely on the experiences of people living with severe mental health problems to help understand the sources of community solidarity. Communities are the primary source of social solidarity, and given the diversity of communities, solutions to the problems faced by individuals living with severe mental health problems must start with community level initiatives. “Ties that Enable” examines the role of a faith-based community group in providing a sense of place and belonging as well as reinforcing a valued social identity. The authors argue that mental health reform efforts need to move beyond a focus on individual recovery to more complex understandings of the meaning of community care. In addition, mental health care needs to move from a medical model to a social model which sees the roots of mental illness and recovery as lying in society, not the individual. It is our society’s inability to provide inclusive supportive environments which restrict the ability of individuals to recover. This book provides insights into how communities and system level reforms can promote justice and the higher ideals we aspire to as a society.

Community mental health services. --- Mental illness. --- Mentally ill --- Care. --- Mental Health, community, solidarity, mental health care, faith-based, community group, health care, healthcare, healthcare reform, obamacare, health policy, public policy, public health, health care justice, justice, doctor, nurse, hospital, insurance, single-payer insurance, universal health care, social identity, marginalization, community treatment, social support, support groups, peer support, social relationships, individual recovery, community care, religion.

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This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite period of disengagement from the routines of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory, often collective, usually intense period of involvement that culminates in some kind of regeneration. By examining a variety of topics as part of a larger, overarching phenomenon, Smelser transforms their study from the particular to the comparative. The Odyssey Experience thus reaches beyond a simple description of where and how transformations occur in daily life to offer a profound explanation for why they are there.

Insight. --- Introspection. --- Life change events. --- Vision quests. --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages. --- Voyages and travels. --- behavioral studies. --- comparative studies. --- engaging. --- human behavior. --- human condition. --- human experiences. --- human tendencies. --- intense period of life. --- life changes. --- life journeys. --- life lessons. --- nonfiction. --- odyssey. --- personal growth. --- personal transformation. --- physical journeys. --- psychological journeys. --- quest for meaning. --- regeneration. --- religion and spirituality. --- scientists. --- self help. --- social relationships. --- spiritual journeys. --- spiritual.