Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on The Terms Used In This Book -- 1 How to Help Those in Poverty -- Reflexive Note -- Who Am I? -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 What Is Poverty? -- Absolute Versus Relative -- Multidimensionality -- Types of Poverty and Satellite Concepts -- Income Poverty -- Deprivation -- Social Exclusion -- Capabilities Approach -- Subjective Poverty -- Social-Relational Poverty -- The Time Scale of Poverty -- What Have We Learned?
Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 3 Psychology of Poverty -- Psychological Explanations for Poverty -- Personality of the Poor -- Attributing the Cause of Poverty -- Discursive Critique of Attributional Research -- Cognitive Feedback Loop -- What the Poor Are Risking, and What Stresses Them Out -- Behavioural Economics' Nudge Intervention -- Critiquing the Assumptions of Behavioural Economics -- Contextual Psychology of Poverty -- References -- 4 The Contexts of Poverty -- Neoliberalism as the Backdrop for Psychology and Poverty -- Contexts of Australian Poverty -- Two Great Australian Books
The Contexts Across the Literature -- And It All Happens at Once ... -- Research in Other Western Democracies -- Summary of Topics and Methods -- Differences to Australian Research -- Contexts From International Research -- Dispositional Stigma From Strangers -- Social Relationships and Identity -- Welfare Bureaucracy -- Mental Health -- Housing and Accommodation -- Food Insecurity -- Women and Mothers -- What Is Poverty in Qualitative Literature? -- Stress and Stressful Life Events -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 The Experiences of Poverty -- The Analysis -- Resources -- Social Relationships
Resource-Social Relationship Pathways -- The Participants -- Gender -- Age -- Payments -- Employment Status -- Education -- Family -- Housing -- Health Status -- Community Participation -- Background -- Transferability and Trustworthiness -- Poverty as a Contextual Experience -- Pets as Family -- Poverty Is the Absence of Hope -- Am I Poor? Do I Have Purpose? -- Educated View of Poverty -- Transient Poverty -- Effort Is Not Rewarded -- It Is No Money -- Rights to the Bare Minimum -- It Is About Life Not Poverty -- In Summary -- Functions of Multiple Definitions -- Shared Experiences -- Stability
Effects On Mental Health -- Purpose -- Do Not Focus On Money -- Interconnections -- Premiums and Catch-22s -- Social Relationships as Stressful -- Preparing for the Worst -- Stress and Habit -- Putting It All Together -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Pathways in Poverty -- Teresa -- Natalie -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Discourses in Poverty -- Analysing the Discourses of the 'Poor' -- Neoliberal Discourses -- The Phantom Poor -- Blaming Other Poor People -- Australian-Specific Discourses -- Why Go Along With These Discourses -- Discourses in My Data -- Neoliberal Discourses -- Media -- Policy
Summary
This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty. It sets out detailed accounts of poverty based on original research and shows how understanding life contexts can give us a deeper understanding of the issue
