Psychosocial Implications of Poverty [electronic resource] : Diversities and Resistances /
Ximenes, Verônica Morais.editor.
Moura Jr., James Ferreira.editor.
Cidade, Elívia Camurça.editor.
Nepomuceno, Bárbara Barbosa.editor.
This book presents a multidimensional, psychosocial and critical understanding of poverty by bringing together studies carried out with groups in different contexts and situations of deprivation in Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Spain. The book is divided in two parts. The first part presents studies that unveil the psychosocial implications of poverty by revealing the processes of domination based on the stigmatization and criminalization of poor people, which contribute to maintain realities of social inequality. The second part presents studies focused on strategies to fight poverty and forms of resistance developed by individuals who are in situations of marginalization. The studies presented in this contributed volume depart from the theoretical framework developed by Critical Social Psychology, Community Psychology and Liberation Psychology, in an effort to understand poverty beyond its monetary dimension, bringing social, cultural, structural and subjective factors into the analysis. Psychological science in general has not produced specific knowledge about poverty as a result of the relations of domination produced by social inequalities fostered by the capitalist system. This book seeks to fill this gap by presenting a psychosocial perspective with psychological and sociological bases aligned in a dialectical way in order to understand and confront poverty. Psychosocial Implications of Poverty - Diversities and Resistances will be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists and economists interested in multidimensional studies of poverty, as well as to policy makers and activists directly working with the development of policies and strategies to fight poverty.
Part I. Critical and psychosocial perspectives on poverty -- Chapter 1. Research in Psychology in the contexts of poverty: For what and for whom? -- Chapter 2. Social Representations of Poverty -- Chapter 3. Social inequality and psychology: perspective for the debate on poverty.-Chapter 4. Stigmatization of Poverty: Bases of Prejudice and Violence against the Poor -- Chapter 5. Experiences of Humiliation and Shame: a psychosocial analysis in Brazilian contexts of poverty -- Chapter 6. Poverty, stigma and drug use: reflections on a perverse relationship -- Chapter 7. The perception of social conditions and its impact on the inclusion processes of people in extreme poverty and social exclusion -- Part II. Strategies of Resistance and fight against poverty -- Chapter 8. Practices of resistance to the stigmatization of poverty: possible pathways -- Chapter 9. Social Support as a way of tackling poverty -- Chapter 10. The poverty stoplight and its psychosocial and multidimensional approach -- Chapter 11. Poverty, gender relations and women's autonomy in the Brazilian rural environment -- Chapter 12. Personal well-being and hope in population living under poverty conditions in Merida, Mexico -- Chapter 13. Indigenous Epistemologies and Visions on Poverty: Aesthetics and Spirituality as Resistance -- Chapter 14. Poverty and Youth: psychosocial implications, ways of life and coping with daily adversities -- Chapter 15. Strategies to tackle poverty: an analysis based on studies carried out with people in psychic suffering and prostitutes -- Chapter 16. Pathways to overcoming poverty: reflections on the path of inclusion of the poor student in higher education.
This book presents a multidimensional, psychosocial and critical understanding of poverty by bringing together studies carried out with groups in different contexts and situations of deprivation in Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Spain. The book is divided in two parts. The first part presents studies that unveil the psychosocial implications of poverty by revealing the processes of domination based on the stigmatization and criminalization of poor people, which contribute to maintain realities of social inequality. The second part presents studies focused on strategies to fight poverty and forms of resistance developed by individuals who are in situations of marginalization. The studies presented in this contributed volume depart from the theoretical framework developed by Critical Social Psychology, Community Psychology and Liberation Psychology, in an effort to understand poverty beyond its monetary dimension, bringing social, cultural, structural and subjective factors into the analysis. Psychological science in general has not produced specific knowledge about poverty as a result of the relations of domination produced by social inequalities fostered by the capitalist system. This book seeks to fill this gap by presenting a psychosocial perspective with psychological and sociological bases aligned in a dialectical way in order to understand and confront poverty. Psychosocial Implications of Poverty - Diversities and Resistances will be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists and economists interested in multidimensional studies of poverty, as well as to policy makers and activists directly working with the development of policies and strategies to fight poverty.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Social policy.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social Policy.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.