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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.
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Verônica Morais Ximenes James Ferreira Moura Jr. Elívia Camurça Cidade Bárbara Barbosa Nepomuceno Editors
Psychosocial Implications of Poverty Diversities and Resistances
Psychosocial Implications of Poverty
Verônica Morais Ximenes James Ferreira Moura Jr. Elívia Camurça Cidade Bárbara Barbosa Nepomuceno Editors
Psychosocial Implications of Poverty Diversities and Resistances
Editors Verônica Morais Ximenes Department of Psychology Federal University of Ceará (UFC) Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil Elívia Camurça Cidade Department of Psychology Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and Ari de Sá College Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
James Ferreira Moura Jr. Institute of Humanities University of International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB) and Graduate Program in Psychology of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) Redenção, Ceará, Brazil Bárbara Barbosa Nepomuceno Department of Psychology Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and Ari de Sá Faculty Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
ISBN 978-3-030-24291-6 ISBN 978-3-030-24292-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24292-3 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Translated from the Portuguese language edition: “Implicações Psicossociais da Pobreza Diversidades e Resistências” by Verônica Morais Ximenes, Bárbara Barbosa Nepomuceno, Elívia Camurça Cidade and James Ferreira Moura Jr. (Eds.), © The Editors, 2016. Published by Fortaleza: Expressão Gráfica e Editora. All Rights Reserved. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt