{"product_id":"social-ladders-anthony-miro-born-9780197825051","title":"Social Ladders: Urban Inequality and the Ideal of Social Mobility","description":"\u003cem\u003eSocial Ladders\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new understanding of a core ideal in political, public, and academic discourses on low-income neighbourhoods: that of promoting upward mobility. It explores the contradictions between the lofty promises of social mobility in marginalised areas, its ambivalent politics and its complex manifestations in people's lived experiences. The analysis put forward in this book invites readers to fundamentally question upward mobility as an effective strategy for enhancing social justice in marginalised neighbourhoods. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on international case studies as well as in-depth fieldwork in Germany, the book depicts the ideal of social mobility from multiple perspectives. \u003cem\u003eSocial Ladders\u003c\/em\u003e, then, is not only an account of how the language of social mobility is used and abused as a way of ignoring the primary needs and problems of disadvantaged communities. It also argues that to understand its divisive nature and hidden costs, we need to hear from more than just the few who have 'made it' up the ladder to social and economic success. We must also include the voices of those commonly seen as having been 'left behind'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Miro Born\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197825052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197825051\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.50d","brand":"Anthony Miro Born","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997569298687,"sku":"9780197825051","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/social-ladders-anthony-miro-born-9780197825051","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}