Understanding and researching urban extreme poverty : a conceptual-methodological approach
| Autor: | Colin McFarlane, Christopher Yap |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Extreme poverty
GE 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning Environmental ethics Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Political ecology GF Urban Studies Politics Sociology Relation (history of concept) Set (psychology) 050703 geography Urban poverty Urbanism |
| Zdroj: | Environment and urbanization, 2020, Vol.32(1), pp.254-274 [Peer Reviewed Journal] |
| ISSN: | 0956-2478 |
| Popis: | Urban extreme poverty has long been regarded as a vital challenge for policy and practice, but how might we research it? In this article, we set out a two-step approach to identifying and understanding the nature of urban extreme poverty (UEP). We experiment with an approach that does not define UEP in advance but seeks to examine it through a series of dimensions and approaches. Drawing on the long history of research on UEP, we argue that research would benefit from early scoping in context. This scoping begins by examining how UEP surfaces in relation to five dimensions: material, economic, political, spatial and emotional–subjective. From that base, we argue for a focus on the causes and form of UEP through dialogue among four epistemic approaches: political economy, political ecology, feminist urbanism and postcolonial urbanism. We illustrate this approach in relation to two quite distinct cities: Mumbai and Lima. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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