Chhachhi, Amrita; Truong, Thanh-Dam - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009
Views on poverty are deeply rooted in cultural frameworks about the human condition shaped by histories. In the debate … on modernity, perspectives on poverty oscillate between: a) making the poor – their ‘morals’ and ‘culture’ – responsible … of governing the population. In this paper we review and explore some key contributions to poverty knowledge from a …