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Zusatztext 'This book challenges each of us. It surprises! defies! and provokes. In questioning our assumptions about power and powerlessness! it calls for a more lucid and creative posture towards who we are and who they are supposed to be.' Valerie Rosoux! FNRS! University of Louvain! author of Negotiating Reconciliation in Peacemaking Informationen zum Autor Amrita Narlikar is President of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Professor at Hamburg University. Her previous books include Bargaining with a Rising India (co-authored, 2014), The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization (co-edited, 2012), and Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations (edited, Cambridge, 2010). Klappentext Poverty narratives have become an unprecedented source of empowerment. Yet, indiscriminate misuse risks devastating repercussions for the weakest members of society. Zusammenfassung Challenging readers of all political persuasions to rethink assumptions about powerlessness! this book shows how poverty has become a political tool and unprecedented source of empowerment. Narlikar's theory of agency! focus on the life-cycles of narratives! and policy-relevant insights make this work a valuable resource for scholars! diplomats! and leaders. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: poverty narratives and power paradoxes; 2. The disempowered many: when the weak suffered what they must; 3. Winning against the odds: a growing empowerment; 4. When fair is foul and foul is fair: overuse and misuse of the poverty narrative; 5. Conclusion: how to sustain the power of the powerless and build winning narratives.
