1st Edition
Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities A Relational Approach
Foreword
Chapter One: Introduction to urban poverty and health inequalities
Chapter Two: Greed verses need: historical tensions in responses to urban poverty
Chapter Three: Mediating urban poverty: From the war on poverty to poverty porn
Chapter Four: Experiences of urban poverty, penal welfare and ill health
Chapter Five: Homelessness: the sharp edge of urban poverty
Chapter Six: Addressing urban poverty and health inequalities
References
Subject Index
Author Index
Biography
Darrin Hodgetts is Professor of Societal Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. Prior to his current post, Darrin worked in Community Medicine at Memorial University, Canada, Psychology and Media at the London School of Economics, UK, and Community Psychology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Darrin’s research focuses on urban poverty, homelessness, and health inequalities.
Dr Ottilie Stolte teaches Social and Community Health Psychology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Key research interests are poverty, homelessness, health inequalities, and injustice. In her research, Ottilie seeks to understand social psychological issues within the broader social, economic, political, and cultural contexts of people's everyday lives.
