Description - Poverty by Ruth Lister
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.
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