Encountering poverty : space, class, and poverty politics

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
This paper focuses on moments and spaces of encounter in which middle class people come into contact with “poor others”, through the examples of a welfare office in rural Montana and in community revitalization meetings in inner-city Chicago neighborhood. It explores how middle class encounters with poverty are mediated by two sets of spatial processes: processes of (self)government and of radical contact. In each case, it examines the ways in which these spaces of encounter foster governance and/or contact processes that reproduce or disrupt dominant discourses about poverty.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Antipode, issn : 0066-4812, 2014, vol. 46, n°. 1, p. 209-228, nombre de pages : 20, Références bibliographiques : 3 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, Oxford, Blackwell