Poverty as Ideology: Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas

ISBN-13: 9781786990457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 336 str.

Andrew Fischer

Opis

A damning critique of the 'poverty industry' which has grown out of development studies, this provocative work also offers a radical new approach to poverty alleviation.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Poverty, Ideology and Development 2. Unpeeling the Politics of Poverty Measures 3. Money-metric Measures of Poverty 4. Multidimensional Measures of Poverty 5. The Social Exclusion Approach 6. Locating Modern Poverty within the Creation and Division of Wealth: Towards a Structuralist and Institutionalist Political Economy Approach in Poverty Studies 7. Social Policy and the Tension between Identification and Segregation within Social Ordering and Development 8. Conclusion: Poverty as Ideology in an Age of Neoliberalism