Between the Social and the Spatial

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inclusive concept of social exclusion, has made poverty research both more interesting and more complicated. This transition to a more multidimensional conceptualization of poverty - and the concomitant efforts to measure this multidimensional concept - forms the background and starting point of this book. Poverty and social exclusion not only became more complex in their manifestations on multiple domains, but during the past few decades, research into its spatial dimensions has also become more relevant and important, giving rise to (or rather, reviving) a vibrant research tradition. Researchers studying the 'social' and 'spatial' dimensions of poverty have only started to challenge and explore the boundaries of each other's research perspectives and instruments. This book brings together these different bodies of literature on the intersection of spatial and social exclusion for the first time, by providing a state-of-the-art review written by internationally-recognized experts who critically reflect on the theoretical status of their research on social exclusion, and on the implications this has for future research and policy-making agendas. Book jacket.

• | Author: Katrien De. Friedrichs Boyser (Jurgen.), Jürgen Friedrichs
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 300 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367602989
• | ISBN-13: 9780367602987