Global Poverty Law

The Production of an Urban Problem (To Be Fixed)

Moniza Rizzini Ansari

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English

Routledge
30 September 2024

Development studies; Poverty & unemployment; Urban communities; Housing law; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Social Justice

This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it.

Urban poverty has been widely examined as a social problem that requires attention and social commitment. Law is often seen as both an important contributor to the problem as well as a source of crucial tools to overcome it. In spite of this, however, poverty is surprisingly disregarded within legal scholarship. This book counters this by drawing on legal theory, legal history, and legal geography to inquire how urban poverty is made visible and invisible as a problem across global cities. More specifically, it investigates the mechanisms and networks through which global urban poverty has been conceptually and materially shaped in a way that fits the remit of global corporate philanthropy and the development aid agenda. By following law’s circuitous interactions with poverty knowledge and antipoverty interventions, the book demonstrates how it plays a historical role in making poverty seen, known, and remedied. As a result, the book argues, law consolidates a stable image of poverty as an essential ‘problem’ – to be uniformly found worldwide and so reasonably fixable with the appropriate legal reforms. Taking poverty to be a fundamental manifestation of social injustice, the book thus raises key questions about the role of law in the achievement of social justice.

This innovative and insightful account of the relationship between law and poverty will appeal to scholars in critical and socio-legal studies, as well as others working in poverty studies, urban studies, development studies, geography, sociology, and social policy.

By: Moniza Rizzini Ansari
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 644g
ISBN: 9781032226828
ISBN 10: 103222682X
Series: Social Justice
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 30 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Seeing Poverty and Fixing It: The Antipodean Perspective of ‘Global’ Poverty Aid Part 1: Framing Social Injustice in the Urban World 1: The Visual Economy of Global Poverty: Framing an Urban Problem To Be fFxed by the Law 2: Advancing a Legal-Aesthetic Framework to Investigate the Global Geographies of Urban Poverty Part 2: A Legal History of Poverty's Production as an Urban Problem 3: Isolating an Urban Problem: Territorial Containment of the Poor To Be Saved 4: Modulating a Global Problem: Targeting the Poorest Populations to Save Themselves Part 3: Global Patterns of Aid and Local Practices of Poverty Demarcation 5: Data Governance: Poverty Formalization and the Grounds of Urban Informality 6: Global Poverty Law: The Things Lawyers Do that Create the Stable Imagery of Urban Poverty. Conclusion: The Ethics and Praxis of Poverty Lawyering in Times of Global Urbanity

Moniza Rizzini Ansari is Human Rights Lawyer and Researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (FAPERJ, PDN10).