“The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle

Autores
Lawson, Victoria; Elwood, Sarah; Canevaro, Santiago; Viotti, Nicolas
Año de publicación
2015
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inglés
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artículo
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versión publicada
Descripción
We investigate middle-class poverty politics in Seattle and Buenos Aires in a period of recovery from deep neoliberal economic crisis. Reading these cases in relation to one another allows us to examine what sorts of class subjects emerge in the US, which is theorized as remaining deeply entrenched in neoliberal governance and Argentina, conceptualized as postneoliberal. We investigate the poverty politics of middle-class residents engaged in anti- or pro-poor activism against homeless encampments or squatter settlements in urban neighborhoods. Rooted in relational poverty theory, we conceptualize these forms of activism as relational practices through which class subjectivities are reiterated or challenged through interactions across class lines. Specifically, we examine (i) how middle-class actors frame their differences or alliances with poorer residents and (ii) how these framings of middle-class selves and poorer others are expressed in poverty politics and cross-class antagonisms or alliances. Our analysis reveals poverty as a key site for the making of middle-class actors as individualized, aspirational, normative subjects in both countries. And yet the poverty politics of middle-class actors is not a foregone conclusion because cross-class alliances do arise, pointing toward the potential for alternative readings of class difference.
Fil: Lawson, Victoria. University of Washington; Estados Unidos
Fil: Elwood, Sarah. University of Washington; Estados Unidos
Fil: Canevaro, Santiago. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Viotti, Nicolas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Materia
CLASS SUBJECTS
MIDDLE CLASS
POVERTY POLITICS
RELATIONAL POVERTY
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acceso abierto
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title “The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle
spellingShingle “The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle
Lawson, Victoria
CLASS SUBJECTS
MIDDLE CLASS
POVERTY POLITICS
RELATIONAL POVERTY
title_short “The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle
title_full “The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle
title_fullStr “The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle
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Elwood, Sarah
Canevaro, Santiago
Viotti, Nicolas
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Elwood, Sarah
Canevaro, Santiago
Viotti, Nicolas
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Canevaro, Santiago
Viotti, Nicolas
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MIDDLE CLASS
POVERTY POLITICS
RELATIONAL POVERTY
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MIDDLE CLASS
POVERTY POLITICS
RELATIONAL POVERTY
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv We investigate middle-class poverty politics in Seattle and Buenos Aires in a period of recovery from deep neoliberal economic crisis. Reading these cases in relation to one another allows us to examine what sorts of class subjects emerge in the US, which is theorized as remaining deeply entrenched in neoliberal governance and Argentina, conceptualized as postneoliberal. We investigate the poverty politics of middle-class residents engaged in anti- or pro-poor activism against homeless encampments or squatter settlements in urban neighborhoods. Rooted in relational poverty theory, we conceptualize these forms of activism as relational practices through which class subjectivities are reiterated or challenged through interactions across class lines. Specifically, we examine (i) how middle-class actors frame their differences or alliances with poorer residents and (ii) how these framings of middle-class selves and poorer others are expressed in poverty politics and cross-class antagonisms or alliances. Our analysis reveals poverty as a key site for the making of middle-class actors as individualized, aspirational, normative subjects in both countries. And yet the poverty politics of middle-class actors is not a foregone conclusion because cross-class alliances do arise, pointing toward the potential for alternative readings of class difference.
Fil: Lawson, Victoria. University of Washington; Estados Unidos
Fil: Elwood, Sarah. University of Washington; Estados Unidos
Fil: Canevaro, Santiago. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Viotti, Nicolas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description We investigate middle-class poverty politics in Seattle and Buenos Aires in a period of recovery from deep neoliberal economic crisis. Reading these cases in relation to one another allows us to examine what sorts of class subjects emerge in the US, which is theorized as remaining deeply entrenched in neoliberal governance and Argentina, conceptualized as postneoliberal. We investigate the poverty politics of middle-class residents engaged in anti- or pro-poor activism against homeless encampments or squatter settlements in urban neighborhoods. Rooted in relational poverty theory, we conceptualize these forms of activism as relational practices through which class subjectivities are reiterated or challenged through interactions across class lines. Specifically, we examine (i) how middle-class actors frame their differences or alliances with poorer residents and (ii) how these framings of middle-class selves and poorer others are expressed in poverty politics and cross-class antagonisms or alliances. Our analysis reveals poverty as a key site for the making of middle-class actors as individualized, aspirational, normative subjects in both countries. And yet the poverty politics of middle-class actors is not a foregone conclusion because cross-class alliances do arise, pointing toward the potential for alternative readings of class difference.
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