Global Poverty Law - The Production of an Urban Problem (To Be Fixed)

This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it.

List of contents

Introduction: Seeing Poverty and Fixing It: The Antipodal Perspective of 'Global' Poverty Aid Part 1: Framing Social Injustice in the Urban World 1: The Visual Economy of Global Poverty: an Urban Problem To Be Fixed by the Law 2: Advancing a Legal-Aesthetic Framework to Investigate the Global Geographies of Urban Poverty Part 2: A Legal History of Poverty's Production as an Urban Problem 3: Isolating an Urban Problem: Territorial Containment of the Poor To Be Saved 4: Modulating a Global Problem: Targeting the Poorest Populations to Save Themselves Part 3: Global Patterns of Aid and Local Practices of Poverty Demarcation 5: Data Governance: Poverty Formalization and the Grounds of Urban Informality 6: Global Poverty Law: The Things Lawyers Do that Create the Stable Imagery of Urban Poverty. Conclusion: The Ethics and Praxis of Poverty Lawyering in Times of Global Urbanity

About the author

Moniza Rizzini Ansari is Human Rights Lawyer and Researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (FAPERJ, PDN10).

Summary

This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it.

Product details

• Authors: Moniza Rizzini Ansari
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032226828
• ISBN: 978-1-03-222682-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Social Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / International, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, International Law, Poverty & unemployment, Politics & government, Urban & municipal planning, Social discrimination & inequality, Politics and government, Jurisprudence & general issues, urban economics, Social Law, Urban communities, Development Studies, Urban and municipal planning and policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Poverty and precarity, Jurisprudence and general issues, Housing law, Social law and Medical law, Social discrimination and social justice, Regional / urban economics