Between the Social and the Spatial: Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Poverty and Social Exclusion - Hardcover

Boyser, Katrien De; Friedrichs, Jürgen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075467925X ISBN 13: 9780754679257

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inclusive concept of social exclusion, has made poverty research both more interesting and more complicated. This transition to a more multidimensional conceptualization of poverty forms the background and starting point of this book. Researchers studying the 'social' and 'spatial' dimensions of poverty have only started to challenge and explore the boundaries of each other's research perspectives and instruments. This book brings together these different bodies of literature on the intersection of spatial and social exclusion for the first time, by providing a state-of-the art review written by internationally-recognized experts who critically reflect on the theoretical status of their research on social exclusion, and on the implications this has for future research and policy-making agendas.

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About the Author

Katrien De Boyser, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Caroline Dewilde, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Danielle Dierckx, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Jürgen Friedrichs, University of Cologne, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075467925X
• ISBN 13: 9780754679257
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Dewilde Caroline