Poverty / Ruth Lister.
Material type:
TextSeries: Key concepts seriesPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xiv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780745645971
- 362.5 LIS 23
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 362.5 LIS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100648634 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to the meaning and experience of poverty in the contemporary world.
The book opens with a lucid discussion of current debates around the definition and measurement of poverty in industrialized societies, before embarking on a multifaceted exploration of its varied interpretations. Drawing on thinking in the field of international development and real-life accounts, the book emphasizes key aspects of poverty such as powerlessness, lack of voice, insecurity, loss of dignity and respect.
Ruth Lister embraces the relational, cultural, symbolic as well as material dimensions of poverty, and makes important links between poverty and other concepts such as capabilities, agency, human rights and citizenship. She concludes by making the case for reframing the politics of poverty as a claim for redistribution and recognition. The result is a rich and insightful analysis, which deepens and broadens our understanding of poverty today. It will be essential reading for all students in the social sciences, as well as researchers, activists and policymakers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface to the First Edition (p. ix)
- Preface to the Second- Edition (p. xi)
- Abbreviations (p. xiii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Concepts, definitions and measures (p. 3)
- Why concepts matter (p. 7)
- Chapters and themes (p. 11)
- 1 Defining Poverty (p. 14)
- Approaches to defining poverty (p. 14)
- Beyond the absolute-relative dichotomy (p. 23)
- Conclusion (p. 43)
- 2 Measuring Poverty (p. 44)
- 'Why?' and 'how?' questions (p. 44)
- 'What?' questions (p. 46)
- 'Who?' questions (p. 51)
- Conclusion (p. 59)
- 3 Inequality, Social Divisions and the Differential Experience of Poverty (p. 60)
- Inequality, social class and polarization (p. 61)
- The experience of poverty (p. 63)
- Gender (p. 64)
- 'Race' and ethnicity (p. 73)
- Disability (p. 76)
- Age (p. 78)
- Geography (p. 81)
- Conclusion (p. 87)
- 4 Discourses of Poverty: From Othering to Respect (p. 88)
- Othering and the power of discourse (p. 90)
- Rooted in history (p. 94)
- Labelling in the late twentieth and the twenty-first century (p. 98)
- The 'p' words (p. 104)
- Representations of poverty (p. 108)
- Stigma, shame and humiliation (p. 112)
- Dignity and respect (p. 116)
- Conclusion (p. 120)
- 5 Poverty and Agency: From Getting By to Getting Organized (p. 122)
- Agency (p. 124)
- Getting by (p. 130)
- Getting (back) at (p. 147)
- Getting out (p. 156)
- Getting organized (p. 164)
- Conclusion (p. 175)
- 6 Poverty, Human Rights and Citizenship (p. 177)
- Human rights (p. 179)
- Citizenship (p. 185)
- Voice (p. 189)
- 'Power not pity' (p. 197)
- Conclusion (p. 201)
- Conclusion: From Concept to Politics (p. 203)
- Key themes (p. 203)
- Research, policy and practice (p. 208)
- A politics of redistribution and recognition & respect (p. 217)
- Notes (p. 222)
- References (p. 227)
- Index (p. 293)