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The shame game : overturning the toxic poverty narrative /
Drawing on a two-year story-telling project and her own experience of childhood poverty, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara, argues for a radical overhaul of the dominant narrative of poverty in the UK and US, using the real experts to try to find answers - the people...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: The inconvenient truth: poverty is real
- A short prologue
- 1 Who are these 'poor' people anyway? Being on the breadline in Britain
- 2 What? There are poor people in the richest nation on earth?
- Part II: Turning the screw on poor people: shame, stigma and cementing of a toxic poverty narrative
- 3 A twisted tale: evolution of the poverty narrative
- 4 Lights, camera, vilification: the narrative in action
- 5 The games we play: weaponising the narrative
- 6 Shame on you: making the toxic narrative stick
- Part III: Flipping the script: challenging the narrative war on the poor
- 7 Feeling it: the truth about living in poverty
- 8 Changing times: fighting poverty, not the poor
- 9 New generation: young people writing their own script
- 10 Altered images: constructing a new narrative
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- Index
- Back cover