“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
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- 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
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CLASS SUBJECTS
MIDDLE CLASS
POVERTY POLITICS
RELATIONAL POVERTY - Nivel de accesibilidad
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- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
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- Institución
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
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- oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/113034
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“The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle |
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“The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle |
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“The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle Lawson, Victoria CLASS SUBJECTS MIDDLE CLASS POVERTY POLITICS RELATIONAL POVERTY |
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“The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle |
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“The poor are us”: middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle |
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Lawson, Victoria Elwood, Sarah Canevaro, Santiago Viotti, Nicolas |
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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 |
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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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