“Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism” is the fruit of contributions to the 2017 Conference on Dimensions of Poverty in Berlin. The book has just been published by Springer. It spans the multiple dimensions of poverty, in normative and technical debates about their measurement and how this fits in the political project of achieving socio-economic justice of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 1 & Sustainable Development Goal 10 and beyond.
Dimensions of Poverty
Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism
This book is the outcome of a journey that started with the 2017 Conference on Dimensions of Poverty in Berlin (https://dimensionsofpoverty.wordpress.com/). The conference brought together scholars of philosophy and poverty research from all over the world, with contributions selected from more than 100 submissions from 33 countries. We thank all those who submitted, and especially the 51 speakers who made it possible to achieve the disciplinary and intellectual diversity reflected in this volume.
Conference Purposes: This conference seeks to assemble fresh theoretical perspectives on absolute and relative poverty within and between nations. It addresses questions in three sections which are aligned with three different dimensions of poverty research. These are: the normative categories of measurement and their uses in measurement practice; the blind spots and global asymmetries within academic poverty research itself; and the role of normative theorists in public debates on fighting global poverty through public policies and private donations. All three sections will feature keynote lectures by highly distinguished academics who have contributed groundbreaking work to the conference issues. Each section will also feature talks from experts who will be addressing an array of more specific research questions.
Contents
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Poverty Measurement,
Epistemic Injustices and Social Activism
Part I Poverty as a Social Relation
Beyond Poverty
Poverty as a Social Relation
Metrics, Politics and Definitions: How Poverty Lost Its Social Context and What This Means for Current Debates
Part II Epistemic Injustices in Poverty Research
Scientific Ghettos and Beyond. Epistemic Injustice in Academia and Its Effects on Researching Poverty
Is the Debate on Poverty Research a Global One? A Consideration of the Exclusion of Odera Oruka’s ‘Human Minimum’ as a Case of Epistemic Injustice
Hairiness and Hairlessness: An African Feminist View of Poverty
Western Academic Activism and Poverty Research: What’s Not to Like
Part III Philosophical Conceptions in Context
Giving Well: Philanthropy for Human Rights
Absolute Poverty in European Welfare States
Poverty, Wealth, and Aid: A Sociological Perspective
Part IV Measuring Multidimensional Poverty
Multidimensional Poverty Measures as Policy Tools
Poverty: Beyond Obscurantism
An Absolute Multidimensional Poverty Measure in the Functioning Space (and Relative Measure in the Resource Space): An Illustration Using Indian Data
Poverty in All Its Forms: Determining the Dimensions of Poverty Through Merging Knowledge
The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty Across Countries: A Proposal for Selecting Dimensions
Capability Deprivation and the Relational Dimension of Poverty: Testing Universal Multidimensional Indexes
Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: The Value of Life and the Challenge to Value Aggregation
Part V Country Cases
Mapping Out Non-monetary Dimensions of Well-Being by Ethnicity in Rural Cameroon
Link to book and table of contents:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-31711-9
Link to announcement and authors:
https://twitter.com/RobertLepenies/status/1273192538690801667?s=20
