Poverty / Ruth Lister.
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TextSeries: Key concepts (Polity Press)Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2004.Description: xi, 238 pages ; 23 cmISBN: - 0745625649
- 9780745625645
- 362.5 LIS
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this stimulating new textbook, Ruth Lister introduces students 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 thought-provoking and multi-faceted exploration of its conceptualization. It draws on thinking in the field of international development and real life accounts to emphasize aspects of poverty such as powerlessness, lack of voice, loss of dignity and respect.
In so doing, the book embraces the relational, cultural, symbolic as well as material dimensions of poverty and makes important links between poverty and other concepts like well-being, capabilities, social divisions and exclusion, agency and citizenship. It 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.
This book will be essential reading for all students in the social sciences, as well as researchers, activists and policy-makers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-228) and index.
1. Defining poverty -- 2. Measuring poverty -- 3. Inequality, social divisions and the differential experience of poverty -- 4. Poverty and social exclusion -- 5. Discourses of poverty : from othering to respect -- 6. Poverty and agency : from getting by to getting organized -- 7. Poverty, human rights and citizenship -- Conclusions : from concept to politics.
Drawing on thinking in the field of international development as well as real life accounts to emphasize different aspects of poverty, this work includes a thorough analysis of the relationship between poverty and social exclusion.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Chapter 1 Defining Poverty
- Chapter 2 Measuring Poverty
- Chapter 3 Inequality, Social Divisions and the Differential Experience of Poverty
- Chapter 4 Poverty and Social Exclusion
- Chapter 5 Discourses of Poverty: From Othering to Respect
- Chapter 6 Poverty and Agency: From Getting By to Getting Organized
- Chapter 7 Poverty, Human Rights and Citizenship