1st Edition

Reimagining Poverty through Social Contextual Analyses Finding New Ways to Understand ‘Getting By’

By Eden Thain Copyright 2024
168 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty. It sets out detailed accounts of poverty based on original research and shows how understanding life contexts can give us a deeper understanding of the issue. The book highlights detailed life contexts from a project exploring the everyday experience of poverty, including what poverty is and what... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

01 | How to Help those in Poverty

02 | What is Poverty?

03 | Psychology of Poverty?

04 | The Contexts of poverty

05 | The Experiences of Poverty

06 | Pathways in Poverty

07 | Discourses in Poverty

08 | Why we have not Solved Poverty

Index

Biography

Eden Thain is a research fellow at the Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia, and a member of the Social Contextual Analysis of Human Behaviour Research Group.