Thinking through chronic poverty and destitution: theorising social relations and social ordering [Draft].

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2006
Document Type:
Research Paper
Theme:
Social Change
Authors:
Green, M.

Abstract

This paper takes an anthropological look at the concept of chronic poverty. It asks what the concept does, both within and outside of specialised poverty and development discourses, investigates its genealogy and considers what kinds of social phenomena it captures.

Citation

Green, M. Thinking through chronic poverty and destitution: theorising social relations and social ordering [Draft]. Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), Manchester, UK (2006) 20 pp.

Thinking through chronic poverty and destitution: theorising social relations and social ordering [Draft].

Published 1 January 2006
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