We consider how social movements in South Africa and Peru rework poverty as a domain of policy intervention. National … 'mappings' of social movements reveal that 'poverty' is rarely central to movement framings challenges they address. This … contrasts with government's justification of policy in terms of impacts on 'poverty'. Movements thus seek to change the …

We consider how social movements in South Africa and Peru rework poverty as a domain of policy intervention. National … 'mappings' of social movements reveal that 'poverty' is rarely central to movement framings challenges they address. This … contrasts with government's justification of policy in terms of impacts on 'poverty'. Movements thus seek to change the …

Discussions of chronic poverty have emphasised the extent to which poverty is chronic because of the social … relationships and structures within which particular groups of the poor are embedded. In this sense chronic poverty should be … mobilisation become central to any discussion of chronic poverty because they are vehicles through which such relationships are …

poverty in both urban and rural social contexts, building on the more specific arguments developed in CPRC Working Papers Nos … programmes, and rather more in their capacity to change the terms in which societies debate poverty and social change, and to … context. While our discussion argues that movements are essential actors in a chronic poverty agenda, the combined effects of …