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"Poverty and Shame : Global Experiences explores Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's contention that shame lies at the absolutist core of poverty. It draws on a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how paying greater attention to the psychological and social consequences of poverty provide...

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Other Authors: Chase, Elaine, 1962- (Editor), Bantebya-Kyomuhendo, Grace (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Poverty > Psychological aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Poverty > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Shame.
Poverty > Psychological aspects.
Poverty > Social aspects.
Soziale Situation.
Armut.
Scham.
Ausgrenzung.
Soziale Ächtung.
Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
  • section I. Cultural conceptions of poverty and shame
  • 2. Oral tradition and literary portrayals of poverty : the evolution of poverty shame in Uganda / Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
  • 3. The wealth of poverty-induced shame in Urdu literature / Sohail Anwar Choudhry
  • 4. Film and literature as a social commentary in India / Leemamol Mathew and Sony Pellissery
  • 5. Poverty and shame in Chinese literature / Ming Yan
  • 6. Poverty and shame : seeking cultural cues within British literature and film / Elaine Chase, Robert Walker, and Sohail Anwar Choudhry
  • 7. Disclosing the poverty-shame nexus within popular films in South Korea (1975-2010) / Yongmie Nicola Jo
  • 8. "Then" and "now" : literary representation of shame, poverty, and social exclusion in Norway / Erika Gubrium.
  • section II. Experiences of poverty and shame in seven countries
  • 9. "Needy and vulnerable, but poverty is not my identity" : experiences of people in poverty in rural Uganda / Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
  • 10. Tales of inadequacy from Pakistan / Sohail Anwar Choudhry
  • 11. "I am not alone" : experiences of poverty-induced shame in a moral economy / Sony Pellissery and Leemamol Mathew
  • 12. Experiences of poverty and shame in urban China / Ming Yan
  • 13. The "shame" of shame : experiences of people living in poverty in Britain / Elaine Chase and Robert Walker
  • 14. Social isolation and poverty in South Korea : a manifestation of the poverty-shame nexus / Yongmie Nicola Jo and Robert Walker
  • 15. (Relative) poverty in rich, egalitarian welfare state : experiences from Norway / Erika Gubrium and Ivar Lødemel.
  • section III. The role of media and society in the construction of poverty-related shame
  • 16. Poverty, the invisible and inseparable "shadow" : reflections from the media and the better-off in rural Uganda / Amon Ashaba Mwiine and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
  • 17. How best to shame those in poverty : perspectives from Pakistan / Sohail Anwar Choudhry
  • 18. Persistence of shaming in a hierarchical society : the case of India / Sony Pellissery and Leemamol Mathew
  • 19. Society and shaming : general public and media perceptions of poverty in urban China / Ming Yan
  • 20. Constructing reality? : the "discursive truth" of poverty in Britain and how it frames the experience of shame / Elaine Chase and Robert Walker
  • 21. "No one should be poor" : social sharing in Norway / Erika Gubrium
  • 22. Poverty and shame : the future / Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo.