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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794981003321

Autore

Crossley Stephen

Titolo

In their place : the imagined geographies of poverty / / Stephen Crossley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Pluto Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78680-119-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Radical Geography

Classificazione

KN181.82 CRO

Disciplina

301.441

Soggetti

Poor - Great Britain - Social conditions

Poverty - Social aspects - Great Britain

Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Spaces of Others -- Swamps and Slums: Exoticising the Poor -- Tales of Two Cities -- Neighbourhood Effects or Westminster Effects? -- Streetwise? -- The Heroic Simplification of the Household -- Piles of Pringles and Crack: Behind Closed Doors -- Less Public, More Private: The Shifting Spaces of the State -- Studying Up.

Sommario/riassunto

He alleged failings of low-income neighborhoods attracts a great deal of academic and political scrutiny and research. However, the realities of localized spaces-such as family home front doors, bedrooms, street corners, and local schools-have not received nearly as much attention. With In Their Place, Stephen Crossley highlights how these spaces are represented from afar by politicians who exaggerate stories for political gain and how these fabrications actively manipulate media coverage of these British individuals and communities. A devastating critique of the Conservative government's approach to tackling inequality, In Their Place will reorient those interested in human geography away from the large scale transnational policies back to the physical spaces that show the realities of life for Britain's low-income neighborhoods. --