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Poverty

Ruth Lister

(Key concepts)

Polity Press, 2021

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1. Defining Poverty Chapter 2. Measuring poverty Chapter 3. Inequality, social divisions and the differential experience of poverty Chapter 4. Discourses of poverty: from Othering to respect Chapter 5. Poverty and agency: from getting by to getting organized Chapter 6: Poverty, human rights and citizenship Conclusion: From concept to politics

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  • NCID
    BC01085903
  • ISBN
    • 9780745645964
  • LCCN
    2020024398
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 313 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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