Between the Social and the Spatial: Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Poverty and Social Exclusion

Mr Jürgen Friedrichs · Ms Caroline Dewilde · Ms Danielle Dierckx · Ms Katrien De Boyser

Dec 2012 · Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

About this ebook

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inclusive concept of social exclusion, has made poverty research both more interesting and more complicated. This transition to a more multidimensional conceptualization of poverty forms the background and starting point of this book.

Researchers studying the 'social' and 'spatial' dimensions of poverty have only started to challenge and explore the boundaries of each other's research perspectives and instruments. This book brings together these different bodies of literature on the intersection of spatial and social exclusion for the first time, by providing a state-of-the art review written by internationally-recognized experts who critically reflect on the theoretical status of their research on social exclusion, and on the implications this has for future research and policy-making agendas.

About the author

Katrien De Boyser, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Caroline Dewilde, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Danielle Dierckx, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Jürgen Friedrichs, University of Cologne, Germany

Serge Paugam, Chris de Neubourg, Keetie Roelen, Franziska Gassmann, Jos Berghman, Annelies Debels, Catharina Lis, Hugo Soly, Walter van Trier, Christian Kesteloot, Maarten Loopmans, Pascal de Decker, Jack Burgers, Erik Snel, Godfried Engbersen, Jürgen Friedrichs, Jennifer Klöckner, Mike Raco, Tuna Tasan-Kok, Ronald van Kempen, Karien Dekker, Katrien de Boyser, Caroline Dewilde, Danielle Dierckx.