The Shame of It : : Global Perspectives on Anti-Poverty Policies /

The Shame of It : : Global Perspectives on Anti-Poverty Policies / / ed. by Erika K. Gubrium, Sony Pellissery, Ivar Lødemel.

The shame experienced by people living in poverty has long been recognised. Nobel laureate and economist, Amartya Sen, has described shame as the irreducible core of poverty. However, little attention has been paid to the implications of this connection in the making and implementation of anti-pover...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Chase, Elaine,
Choudhry, Sohail,
Gubrium, Erika K.,
Jo, Yongmie Nicola,
Kyomuhendo, Grace Bantebya,
Lødemel, Ivar,
Mathew, Leemamol,
Mwiine, Amon,
Pellissery, Sony,
Walker, Robert,
Yan, Ming,
HerausgeberIn:
Gubrium, Erika K.,
Lødemel, Ivar,
Pellissery, Sony,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Resetting the stage
  • New urban poverty and new welfare provision: China’s dibao system
  • Thick poverty, thicker society and thin state: policy spaces for human dignity in India
  • Self-sufficiency, social assistance and the shaming of poverty in South Korea
  • ‘Not good enough’: social assistance and shaming in Norway
  • Pakistan: a journey of poverty-induced shame
  • Separating the sheep from the goats: tackling poverty in Britain for over four centuries
  • ‘Food that cannot be eaten’: the shame of Uganda’s anti-poverty policies
  • Shame and shaming in policy processes
  • Towards global principles for dignity-based anti-poverty policies
  • Index

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