Poverty as a Social Stigma

Axelle Brodiez-Dolino & translated by Oliver Waine — 2019-12-13T06:00:00Z

The distinction between the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor is deeply entrenched, and representations of poverty have long been burdened with their share of prejudices and stigmas. Historian Axelle Brodiez-Dolino brings into perspective the changing social boundaries, categories and policies that have constructed, deconstructed and sought to tackle poverty.
Society—whether Christian or secularized, monarchical or republican—has always been, and remains, the product of interaction among

- Essays / urban poor, poverty, precarity, vulnerability, assistance, welfare state, stigma

Metropolitics

Poverty as a Social Stigma