The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative

ISBN-13: 9781447349266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str.

Mary O'Hara

Opis

Drawing on a two-year multi-platform initiative, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara, asks how we can overturn the portrayal of poverty once and for all. Crucially, she turns to the real experts to try to find answers - the people who live it.

Spis treści

PART I : The inconvenient truth: poverty is real A short prologue Introduction 1 Who are these ‘poor’ people anyway? Being on the breadline in Britain 2 What? There are poor people in the richest nation on earth? PART II: Turning the screw on poor people: shame, stigma and cementing of a toxic poverty narrative 3 A twisted tale: evolution of a the poverty narrative 4 Lights, camera, vilification: the narrative in action 5 The games we play: weaponising the narrative 6 Shame on you: making the toxic narrative stick PART III: Flipping the script: challenging the narrative war on the poor 7 Feeling it: the truth about living in poverty 8 Changing times: fighting poverty, not the poor 9 New generation: young people writing their own script 10 Altered images: constructing a new narrative