Poverty (Hardcover)

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.

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

General

Imprint:	Polity Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Key Concepts
Release date:	October 2004
First published:	December 2004
Authors:	Ruth Lister
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-7456-2563-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	0-7456-2563-0
Barcode:	9780745625638

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