Living In Poverty - Developmental Poetics of Cultural Realities (Hardcover, New)

A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark University This book covers the results of investigation of social realities and their public representation in Brazilian poor communities, with a particular emphasis on the use of cultural tools to survive and create psychological and social novelty under conditions of severe poverty. A relevant part of it brings together the multi-faceted evidence of a decade of research concentrated in two particular low-income areas in the city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Other studies conducted in other Brazilian areas and in Cali, Colombia are included. In contrast to most representations of poverty in the social sciences which create a "calamity story" of the lives of poor people, the coverage in this book is meant to balance the focus on harsh realities with the cultural-psychological resiliency of individuals and families under poverty.

General

Imprint:	Information Age Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	October 2009
Contributors:	Ana Cecilia Sousa-Bastos
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	476
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-60752-318-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment
LSN:	1-60752-318-3
Barcode:	9781607523185

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