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Kaplan, Seth D.
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Neighborhoods -- United States.
Poverty -- Social aspects -- United States.
Community development -- United States.
Social problems -- United States.
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Kaplan, Seth D.
Neighborhoods -- United States.
Poverty -- Social aspects -- United States.
Community development -- United States.
Social problems -- United States.
MARC Display
Fragile neighborhoods :
repairing
American
society
one
zip
code
at a
time
/ Seth D. Kaplan.
by
Kaplan, Seth D.
Little Brown & Company, c2023.
Call #:
362.0420973 K172f
Subjects
Neighborhoods -- United States.
Poverty -- Social aspects -- United States.
Community development -- United States.
Social problems -- United States.
ISBN:
9780316521390 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Repairing
American
society
one
zip
code
at a
time
Description:
249 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Kaplan (Human Rights in Thick and Thin Societies), a professor of international studies at John Hopkins University, strays outside his area of expertise -- “fragile states” -- in this unconvincing analysis of “social poverty” in America. Defining “fragile neighborhoods” as places of “stress, mistrust, frustration, and a sense of insecurity,” where people are anxious, depressed, and alienated from
one
another, Kaplan claims such conditions are the result of social poverty, a dearth of supportive social relations and local institutions rather than economic poverty. He argues that fragile neighborhoods can be rich or poor, and that governmental support, good jobs, living wages, and wealth-creation opportunities are necessary but insufficient for eradicating social poverty. Kaplan highlights five initiatives he contends are adequately addressing the problem, including Partners for Education's strengthening of learning environments in eastern Kentucky and East Lake Foundation's multipronged efforts to develop mixed-income housing in Atlanta. These “social repairers,” as he labels them, utilize bottom-up, collaborative, comprehensive, privately funded, and volunteer-based approaches. Kaplan’s tone is hopeful, but would be more persuasive if his recommendations were not cast in such general terms, his examples considered more critically, and his argument more attentive to economic justice. This holds the most appeal for nonprofit leaders in search of motivational advice."--Publishers Weekly.
Seth D. Kaplan is a leading expert on fragile states. He is a professorial lecturer in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Senior Adviser for the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT), and consultant to multilateral organizations such as the World Bank, U.S. State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development, and OECD as well as developing country governments and NGOs.
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