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,...
Session VI: Poverty and Home
October 27This session explores experiences of poverty in and through the idea of 'home': the politics of homelessness, of intentional neighboring, and how we...
Lightning Talks
October 27The lightning talks offer participants 5 minutes to talk about a project that they are currently engaged in. We invited both academic and activist...
