Changing Times, Changing Families in Rural Washington
December 15Jennifer Sherman, Department of Sociology, Washington State University This project is an extension of previous work, which focused on a remote...
Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members
Filter by: All | Economic Crisis | Poverty discourse | Inequality | Difference: | Places: N. America, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia
Connecting for survival: Understanding the spatial implications of migrant women’s survival strategies in two cities
November 21Colleen Hammelman, Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University Women worldwide carry out survival strategies that rely on connecting to...
Videos: #GlobalPOV Project
November 4Ananya Roy, University of California at Los Angeles and Abby VanMuijen, University of California at Berkeley The #GlobalPOV Project combines...
Opening Plenaries: Tim Harris and Frances Fox Piven
October 27Vicky Lawson and Sarah Elwood Introductory Remarks Frances Fox Piven Plenary Due to some technical issues, we cannot post video from...
Session I: Political Engagements with Urban Poverty
October 27This abridged session specifically addresses the politics of poverty in urban places: from Paraguay to Mumbai to the Bronx, these papers help bring...
Session II: Spaces of Alliance Politics Across Class and Difference
October 27This session grapples with the question of alliance politics: what brings people together, how the middle class allies itself with the poor, and how...
Session III: Gendered, Legal and Institutional Targeting of the ‘Poor Other’
October 27Who is identified as 'poor', and how are they targeted through policy, punitive legal policies, and institutions such as the criminal justice...
Session IV: Health Care / Work
October 27This session rests on the important role of caring relationships in navigating experiences of impoverishment and precarity. Presenters explored...
Session V: Policy and Policymaking: Reforming Poverty?
October 27"Reforming Poverty?" asks how policy can/not impact material, lived experience of poverty. Papers think through discourse, knowledge politics,...