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Relational Poverty Politics - Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities (Hardcover)
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Relational Poverty Politics - Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities (Hardcover)
Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series
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This collection examines the power and transformative potential of
movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly,
poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means
to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These
movements shape the sociocultural and political economic structures
that constitute poverty and privilege as material and social
relations. Editors Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood focus on the
politics of insurgent movements against poverty and inequality in
seven countries (Argentina, India, Brazil, South Africa, Thailand,
Singapore, and the United States).The contributors explore theory
and practice in alliance politics, resistance movements, the
militarized repression of justice movements, global counterpublics,
and political theater. These movements reflect the diversity of
poverty politics and the relations between bureaucracies and
antipoverty movements. They discuss work done by mass and other
types of mobilizations across multiple scales; forms of creative
and political alliance across axes of difference; expressions and
exercises of agency by people named as poor; and the kinds of
rights and other claims that are made in different spaces and
places. Relational Poverty Politics advocates for poverty knowledge
grounded in relational perspectives that highlight the adversarial
relationship of poverty to privilege, as well as the possibility
for alliances across different groups. It incorporates current
research in the field and demonstrates how relational poverty
knowledge is best seen as a model for understanding how theory is
derivative of action as much as the other way around. The book lays
a foundation for realistic change that can directly attack poverty
at its roots.
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