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Global Poverty Law: The Production of an Urban Problem (To Be Fixed) book cover

1st Edition

Global Poverty Law The Production of an Urban Problem (To Be Fixed)

By Moniza Rizzini Ansari Copyright 2025
262 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it. Urban poverty has been widely examined as a social problem that requires attention and social commitment. Law is often seen as both an important contributor to the problem as well as a source of crucial tools to overcome it. In spite of this, however,... Read more

Introduction: Seeing Poverty and Fixing It: The Antipodal Perspective of ‘Global’ Poverty Aid Part 1: Framing Social Injustice in the Urban World 1: The Visual Economy of Global Poverty: an Urban Problem To Be Fixed by the Law 2: Advancing a Legal-Aesthetic Framework to Investigate the Global Geographies of Urban Poverty Part 2: A Legal History of Poverty's Production as an Urban Problem 3: Isolating an Urban Problem: Territorial Containment of the Poor To Be Saved 4: Modulating a Global Problem: Targeting the Poorest Populations to Save Themselves Part 3: Global Patterns of Aid and Local Practices of Poverty Demarcation 5: Data Governance: Poverty Formalization and the Grounds of Urban Informality 6: Global Poverty Law: The Things Lawyers Do that Create the Stable Imagery of Urban Poverty. Conclusion: The Ethics and Praxis of Poverty Lawyering in Times of Global Urbanity

Biography

Moniza Rizzini Ansari is Human Rights Lawyer and Researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (FAPERJ, PDN10).

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