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Lister, Ruth

 
9780745645964: Poverty (Key Concepts)

Sinopsis

Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her important intervention on the topic, 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 multifaceted 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 capabilities, social divisions and exclusion, agency and citizenship. Lister 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.

Poverty will be essential reading for all students in the social sciences, as well as researchers, activists and policy-makers.

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Ruth Lister is a member of the House of Lords and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University.

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9780745645971: Poverty (Key Concepts)

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ISBN 10:  0745645976 ISBN 13:  9780745645971
Editorial: Polity Press, 2020
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