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For many poor Americans eviction has become a way of life. Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and Codirector of the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard University, has followed tenants and landlords swept up in the process of eviction. Combining urban reportage with original statistical data, he shows that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty and that the face of America’s eviction epidemic belongs to mothers and children. Presenting new insights into the fundamental role housing plays in deepening inequality in America, Desmond affirms the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
Matthew Desmond is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and Codirector of the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard University. He is a leading ethnographer and theorist of race and poverty in the United States. In 2015, he won a prestigious MacArthur „Genius“ Award.
Information on participating / attending:
The WZB provides child care during the lecture. If you are interested, please re-spond by April 25, 2016, indicating the number of children and their age to Friederike Theilen Kosch: friederike.theilen-kosch@wzb.eu
Date:
05/09/2016 17:00 - 05/09/2016 19:00
Registration deadline:
05/04/2016
Event venue:
Reichpietschufer 50, Raum A 300
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Psychology, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
04/14/2016
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event53994
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