Poverty as ideology : rescuing social justice from global development agendas /
Shows how our dominant approaches to poverty studies have, in fact, served to reinforce the prevailing neoliberal ideology while neglecting the wider interests of social justice that are fundamental to creating more equitable societies. Instead, our development policies have created a 'poverty...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, England :
Zed Books,
2018.
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| Series: | CROP international studies in poverty research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Shows how our dominant approaches to poverty studies have, in fact, served to reinforce the prevailing neoliberal ideology while neglecting the wider interests of social justice that are fundamental to creating more equitable societies. Instead, our development policies have created a 'poverty industry' that obscures the dynamic reproductions of poverty within contemporary capitalist development and promotes segregation in the name of science and charity. Fischer argues that an effective and lasting solution to global poverty requires us to reorient our efforts away from current fixations on productivity and towards more equitable distributions of wealth and resources. --From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 316 pages) : illustrations. Also published in printing. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [284]-302) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350221932 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350221932 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers. |