Psychosocial Implications of Poverty: Diversities and Resistances

Book Overview

Introduction

Part I - Critical and psychosocial perspectives on poverty

Chapter 1: Research in Psychology in the contexts of poverty: For what and for whom?

Chapter 2: Social Representations of Poverty

Chapter 3: Social (ine)equality and Psychology: a perspective for the debate on poverty

Chapter 4: Stigmatization of Poverty: Bases of Prejudice and Violence Against the Poor

Chapter 5: Experiences of Humiliation and Shame: a psychosocial analysis in Brazilian contexts of poverty

Chapter 6: Poverty, stigma and drug use: reflections on a perverse relationship

Chapter 7: The perception of social reality and its impact on the processes of exclusion of people in situations of extreme poverty in Spain and Nicaragua

Part II - Strategies of Resistance and fight against poverty

Chapter 8: Practices of resistance to the stigmatization of poverty: possible pathways

Chapter 9: Social Support as a way of tackling poverty

Chapter 10: The Traffic Light of Poverty Elimination and its Multidimensional and Psychosocial Approach in Paraguay

Chapter 11: Poverty, Political Participation and Autonomy of Women in the Brazilian Rural Environment

Chapter 12: Personal Well-being and Hope in Population in Situation of Poverty in Merida, Mexico

Chapter 13: Indigenous Epistemologies and Visions on Poverty: Aesthetics and Spirituality as Resistance

Chapter 14: Poverty and Youth: psychosocial implications, ways of life and coping with daily adversities

Chapter 15: Strategies to tackle poverty: an analysis based on studies carried out with people in psychic suffering and prostitutes

Conclusion

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030242943
• ISBN13: 9783030242947
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"