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Book SynopsisA radical geography of the representation of impoverished communities in Britain
Trade Review'Poverty is such a strong word and is not used as much as it needs to be. I am very grateful that this book does not shy away from those difficult words and also those difficult conversations about poverty in Britain today' -- Lisa Mckenzie, author of Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain
'Forensically maps the 'Othering' of poor people, charting the stigmatisation, exoticisation, spatial marginalisation and even aestheticisation of their neighbourhoods' -- Alison Garnham, Chief Executive, Child Poverty Action Group
'Stephen Crossley has become one of the leading critical voices in the debate on poverty and inequality in the UK, and this remarkable and elegant book is a superb illustration of why his voice is so important' -- Tom Slater, Reader in Urban Geography, University of Edinburgh
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Series Preface
1. Introduction: The Spaces of Others
2. Swamps and Slums: Exoticising the Poor
3. Tales of Two Cities
4. Neighbourhood Effects or Westminster Effects?
5. Streetwise?
6. The Heroic Simplification of the Household
7. Piles of Pringles and Crack: Behind Closed Doors
8. Less Public, More Private: The Shifting Spaces of the State
9. Studying Up
Notes
Index
