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Poverty - Couverture souple

Lister, Ruth

 
9780745625645: Poverty
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0745625649 ISBN 13 : 9780745625645
Editeur : Polity Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ruth Lister is Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745625649
ISBN 13 
9780745625645
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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