Incomparable Orients
An Anthropological Approach To Poverty Debates In Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2476595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Jancius (Michigan State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 3-9 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-5632 • E-ISSN: 1556-5823 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/jsae.2001.1.2.3 |
| OpenAlex | W2078270461 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper looks at poverty as a relevant theme for the anthropology of Europe. Focusing on reunified eastern Germany, I explore how definitions of poverty have shifted over time and in relation to different welfare state models. I suggest that, while quantitative research distinguishes between "absolute" and "relative" poverty (using the latter concept to describe social marginalization and economic hardship in wealthier countries), in daily-life this division is not always so clear. "Poverty" becomes an ambiguous and weighted word, whose double meaning is able to bring marginalized groups of the "First" and "Third" worlds into the same uncomfortable conceptual space
Basic needs · Culture of poverty · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2014 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |