Author : Cynthia E. Milton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804751780
The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context—it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism.
Author : Rose D. Friedman
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
USA. Definition of poverty in relation to standard of living, nutrition, living conditions, etc.
Author : Paul Spicker
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1861348886
Paul Spicker examines views about what poverty is and what should be done about it. 'Poverty' means many different things to different people - for example, lack of money or dependency on benefits. Here, he makes an argument for a participative, inclusive understanding of the term.
Author : Peter Alcock
Publisher : Macmillan Pub Limited
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333692806
This second edition of an important text has been substantially revised and updated to incorporate new evidence and arguments regarding poverty in Britain. Comprehensive and accessible, it deals with the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analyses the full range of debates about its causes and its possible solution. It is essential reading for students of social policy, sociology, social work and related social sciences.
Author : Michael Harrington
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 1997-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 068482678X
Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.
Author : Sendhil Mullainathan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0805092641
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
Author : Erin B. Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759124221
Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation. Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities, and fulfill emotional needs. In this book, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use their material resources creatively to solve everyday problems and, over a few decades, radically transform the community. Their struggles show how these everyday engagements with materiality, rather than more dramatic efforts, generate social change and build futures.
Author : David B. Grusky
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804748438
This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advances strategies for reducing poverty and inequality that are consistent with these new conceptual and methodological approaches.
Author : Anthony Barnes Atkinson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691191220
The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the world In this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world’s great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe? The persistence of poverty—in rich and poor countries alike—is one of the most serious problems facing humanity. Better measurement of poverty is essential for raising awareness, motivating action, designing good policy, gauging progress, and holding political leaders accountable for meeting targets. To help make this possible, Atkinson provides a critically important examination of how poverty is—and should be—measured. Bringing together evidence about the nature and extent of poverty across the world and including case studies of sixty countries, Atkinson addresses both financial poverty and other indicators of deprivation. He starts from first principles about the meaning of poverty, translates these into concrete measures, and analyzes the data to which the measures can be applied. Crucially, he integrates international organizations’ measurements of poverty with countries’ own national analyses. Atkinson died before he was able to complete the book, but at his request it was edited for publication by two of his colleagues, John Micklewright and Andrea Brandolini. In addition, François Bourguignon and Nicholas Stern provide afterwords that address key issues from the unfinished chapters: how poverty relates to growth, inequality, and climate change. The result is an essential contribution to efforts to alleviate poverty around the world.
Author : Victoria Lawson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820353124
This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural and political economic structures that constitute poverty and privilege as material and social relations. Editors Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood focus on the politics of insurgent movements against poverty and inequality in seven countries (Argentina, India, Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, Singapore, and the United States). The contributors explore theory and practice in alliance politics, resistance movements, the militarized repression of justice movements, global counterpublics, and political theater. These movements reflect the diversity of poverty politics and the relations between bureaucracies and antipoverty movements. They discuss work done by mass and other types of mobilizations across multiple scales; forms of creative and political alliance across axes of difference; expressions and exercises of agency by people named as poor; and the kinds of rights and other claims that are made in different spaces and places. Relational Poverty Politics advocates for poverty knowledge grounded in relational perspectives that highlight the adversarial relationship of poverty to privilege, as well as the possibility for alliances across different groups. It incorporates current research in the field and demonstrates how relational poverty knowledge is best seen as a model for understanding how theory is derivative of action as much as the other way around. The book lays a foundation for realistic change that can directly attack poverty at its roots. Contributors: Antonádia Borges, Dia Da Costa, Sarah Elwood, David Boarder Giles, Jim Glassman, Victoria Lawson, Felipe Magalhães, Jeff Maskovsky, Richa Nagar, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, LaShawnDa Pittman, Frances Fox Piven, Preeti Sampat, Thomas Swerts, and Junjia Ye.
