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Poverty and Shame

Global Experiences

Edited by Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo

Challenges prevailing views about the nature and impact of poverty
Provides unique and multiple insights into how shame in association with poverty is constructed and experienced.
Provides a clear practice example of cross cultural, interdisciplinary and comparative research in seven different countries
Points to the need for policies that promote dignity and explains why they are likely to be more effective than those that do not

£84.00

Hardback

Published: 04 December 2014

336 Pages

234x156mm

ISBN: 9780199686728

Also Available As:

Ebook

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Poverty and Shame

Global Experiences

Edited by Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo

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Poverty and Shame: Global Experiences explores Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's contention that shame lies at the absolutist core of poverty. It draws on a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how paying greater attention to the psychological and social consequences of poverty provides new insights into how poverty is perpetuated. Based on research in seven very different global contexts, it reveals how, irrespective of whether people live above or below a designated poverty line, in cultures as diverse as rural India, Uganda and Pakistan, urban/suburban UK, China, Norway and South Korea, the ability to participate in society as a full and recognised citizen is largely contingent on having the material resources deemed normal for that society. When such means are not available, the common response is to feel inadequate and to save face by withdrawing to varying degrees from society. Such a response further limits opportunities to exit poverty and arguably results in perpetuating its cycle. Yet society in turn plays a fundamental role in what we term the poverty-shame nexus, by persistently evaluating others against dominant norms and expectations and prioritising certain explanations of poverty over others. Hence shame in relation to poverty is co-constructed, a dynamic interaction of internally felt inadequacies and externally inflicted judgements.

This book, together with the companion volume The Shame of Poverty by Robert Walker invites readers to question conventional understandings about poverty and its impact. In so doing, the volumes provide a foundation for a more satisfactory global conversation about the phenomenon of poverty than that which has hitherto been frustrated by disagreement about whether poverty is best conceptualised in absolute or relative terms.

Poverty and Shame

Global Experiences

Edited by Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo

1:Introduction, Elaine Chase & Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
Section 1: Cultural conceptions of poverty and shame: Preface, Elaine Chase
2:Oral Tradition and Literary Portrayals of Poverty; the Evolution of Poverty Shame in Uganda, Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
3:The Wealth of Poverty-induced Shame in Urdu Literature, Sohail Anwar Choudhry
4:Film and literature as social commentary in India, Leemamol Mathew & Sony Pellissery
5:Poverty and shame in Chinese literature, Ming Yan
6:Poverty and shame: seeking cultural cues within British literature and film, Elaine Chase, Robert Walker & Sohail Anwar Choudhry
7:Disclosing the poverty-shame nexus within popular films in South Korea ( 1975-2010), Yongmie Nicola Jo
8:'Then' and 'now': Literary representatio nof shame, poverty and social exclusion in Norway, Erika Gubrium
Section 2 : Experiences of poverty and shame in seven countries: Preface, Elaine Chase
9:'Needy and vulnerable, but poverty is not my identity': Experiences of people in poverty in Uganda, Grace Bantebya- Kyomuhendo
10:Tales of inadequacey from Pakistan, Sohail Anwar Choudhry
11:'I am not alone' : Experience sof poverty induced shame in a moral economy, Sony Pellissery & Leemamol Mathew
12:Experiences of poverty and shame in urban China, Ming Yan
13:The 'shame' of shame: experiences of people living in poverty in Britain, Elaine Chase & Robert Walker
14:Social isolation and poverty in South Korea: A manifestation of the poverty-shame nexus, Yongmie Nicola Jo & Robert Walker
15:Relative poverty in a rich, egalitarian welfare state: Experiences from Norway, Erika Gubrium & Ivar Lødemel
Section 3: The role of media and society in the construction of poverty-related shame : Preface, Elaine Chase
16:Poverty the invisible and inseparable 'shadow': Reflections from the media and the better off in rural Uganda, Amon Ashaba Mwiine & Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
17:How best to shame those in poverty: Perspectives from Pakistan, Sohail Anwar Choudhry
18:Persistence of shaming in hierarchical society: The case of India, Sony Pellissery & Leemamol Mathew
19:Society and shaming: General public and media perceptions of poverty in urban China, Ming Yan
20:Constructing reality?: The 'discursive truth' of poverty in Britain and how it frames the experience of shame, Elaine Chase & Robert Walker
21:'No one should be poor': Social Shaming in Norway, Erika Gubrium
22:Poverty and shame: the future, Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya -Kyomuhendo

Poverty and Shame

Global Experiences

Edited by Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo

Author Information

Edited by Elaine Chase, Research Officer, University of Oxford, and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo, Professor, Makerere University, Uganda

Elaine Chase is a Research Fellow at the Department of Social Policy and Green Templeton College, University of Oxford Her research interests include the sociological dimensions of poverty, migration, social exclusion, rights and wellbeing. She has conducted research and written widely on these themes from a UK and international perspective and with a particular focus on young people and communities most likely to face marginalisation and disadvantage.

Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo is a Professor in the School of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University, Uganda, and is a distinguished social anthropologist and an experienced trainer/lecturer, researcher and advocate for gender equality and social transformation. Grace has done extensive research in poverty and social exclusion , gender poverty and social transformation, Reproductive Health, in particular maternal health, HIV/AIDs in conflict situation. She has also researched on women and ICT and Gender and climate change. She has published widely, most recent being a co-authored book entitled Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda which got an award from African Studies Association.

Contributors:

Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo, Makerere University, Uganda
Elaine Chase, Oxford Institute of Social Policy, Oxford
Sohail Anwar Choudhry, Oxford Institute of Social Policy, Oxford
Erika Gubrium, Oslo & Akershus University, Oslo
Ivar Lødemel, Oslo & Akershus University, Oslo
Leemamol Mathew, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India
Amon Ashaba Mwiine, Makerere University, Uganda
Sony Pellissery, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India
Robert Walker, Oxford Institute of Social Policy, Oxford
Ming Yan, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
Yongmie Nicola Jo, University of Oxford, Oxford

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Poverty and Shame

Global Experiences

Edited by Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo

Challenges prevailing views about the nature and impact of poverty
Provides unique and multiple insights into how shame in association with poverty is constructed and experienced.
Provides a clear practice example of cross cultural, interdisciplinary and comparative research in seven different countries
Points to the need for policies that promote dignity and explains why they are likely to be more effective than those that do not

£84.00

Hardback

Published: 04 December 2014

336 Pages

234x156mm

ISBN: 9780199686728

Also Available As:

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Poverty and Shame

Global Experiences

Edited by Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo

Description

Poverty and Shame

Global Experiences

Edited by Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo

Poverty and Shame

Global Experiences

Edited by Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo

Author Information

Edited by Elaine Chase, Research Officer, University of Oxford, and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo, Professor, Makerere University, Uganda

Contributors:

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Human Rights and World Public Order

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Roger D. Congleton, Bernard N. Grofman, Stefan Voigt
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Nicholas Greenwood Onuf
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Global Experiences

Edited by Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo

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