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Poverty is a Person - Human Agency, Women and Caribbean Households (Paperback)
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Poverty is a Person - Human Agency, Women and Caribbean Households (Paperback)
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In the Caribbean, poverty is the other side of paradise. Economic
hardship and social exclusion coexist with idyllic beaches and
picturesque scenes of island life, and poor communities, both rural
and urban, with substandard living conditions and a lack of access
to basic services, belie the story often sold in tourist brochures.
In Poverty is a Person, Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley, in a
participatory approach to development studies, raises the voices of
those usually muted in poverty research. The people-centred
approach forces a questioning of statistical data on poverty and
how that data is used to craft responses and solutions to meeting
the needs of the most marginalized persons in Caribbean societies.
The book provides a synopsis of poverty from a ""people
perspective"" and is supported by case studies of households and
communities. The lack of humanity in traditional poverty studies is
brought to the fore and in particular, the gender dimension of
poverty - what it is that women do on a daily basis to survive and
provide for their families. Rajck-Talley, in a refreshing take on
research and development, highlights how social inclusion can
influence positive change and improvement and how the employment of
social capital can be harnessed as an important element in poverty
reduction. In pulling together an understanding of social
exclusion, women's roles in negotiating poverty, and the role of
human agency generally, Poverty is a Person highlights the need to
remove the prohibitive parameters of traditional poverty studies
and suggests a paradigm shift in the approach of Caribbean
countries to employ a more effective and targeted approach to the
multidimensional facets of poverty.
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