States of Poverty

In this book, the hungry class is talking... Those who were poor before and after the economic crises, those who will always remain poor, those who experience poverty as if it were their fate, those "at the bottom"... Without the formality of the interview, without correcting the grammar, 'langir lungur'... They describe their own situation. They tell about the treatment they received, how they perceived the world, the country, the rich, men and women, religion and spirituality, nation and nationality. And the things they say, "I don't understand...", the things they can't understand, the things they can't get out of...

The book also includes analyzes on different aspects of poverty, through the poor people's own narratives and stories:
"The world of the poor": Cultural representations of the poor in Turkey (Necmi Erdogan)
"Don't ignore": Poverty-subordination and the wounds of difference (Necmi Erdogan)
"What will you manage with what doesn't exist?": Poverty, women and households (Aksu Bora)
House of the poor (Ersan Ocak)
Poverty and nationalism (Kemal Can)
Poverty and religiosity (Ahmet Çigdem)
Cooperation and solidarity based on origin (Mustafa Sen)
Questioning impoverishment as a process and situation (Ömer Laçiner)

If you are interested in being aware of the social life in which the urban poor live, their relations of domination and exploitation, their processes of marginalization, exclusion and criminalization... and how they make sense of it...



Number of Pages: 960

Year of Printing: 2007


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Editor: Necmi Erdogan

Number of Pages: 960

First Print Year: 2007

Language Turkish