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Poverty as Ideology - Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas (Paperback)
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Poverty as Ideology - Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas (Paperback)
Series: International Studies in Poverty Research
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Winner of the International Studies in Poverty Prize awarded by the
Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books.
Poverty has become the central focus of global development efforts,
with a vast body of research and funding dedicated to its
alleviation. And yet, the field of poverty studies remains deeply
ideological and has been used to justify wealth and power within
the prevailing world order. Andrew Martin Fischer clarifies this
deeply political character, from conceptions and measures of
poverty through to their application as policies. Poverty as
Ideology shows how our dominant approaches to poverty studies have,
in fact, served to reinforce the prevailing neoliberal ideology
while neglecting the wider interests of social justice that are
fundamental to creating more equitable societies. Instead, our
development policies have created a 'poverty industry' that
obscures the dynamic reproductions of poverty within contemporary
capitalist development and promotes segregation in the name of
science and charity. Fischer argues that an effective and lasting
solution to global poverty requires us to reorient our efforts away
from current fixations on productivity and towards more equitable
distributions of wealth and resources. This provocative work offers
a radical new approach to understanding poverty based on a
comprehensive and accessible critique of key concepts and research
methods. It upends much of the received wisdom to provide an
invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers across
the social sciences.
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