Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction
Part I - Critical and psychosocial perspectives on poverty
Chapter 1: Research in Psychology in the contexts of poverty: For what and for whom?
Chapter 2: Social Representations of Poverty
Chapter 3: Social (ine)equality and Psychology: a perspective for the debate on poverty
Chapter 4: Stigmatization of Poverty: Bases of Prejudice and Violence Against the Poor
Chapter 5: Experiences of Humiliation and Shame: a psychosocial analysis in Brazilian contexts of poverty
Chapter 6: Poverty, stigma and drug use: reflections on a perverse relationship
Chapter 7: The perception of social reality and its impact on the processes of exclusion of people in situations of extreme poverty in Spain and Nicaragua
Part II - Strategies of Resistance and fight against poverty
Chapter 8: Practices of resistance to the stigmatization of poverty: possible pathways
Chapter 9: Social Support as a way of tackling poverty
Chapter 10: The Traffic Light of Poverty Elimination and its Multidimensional and Psychosocial Approach in Paraguay
Chapter 11: Poverty, Political Participation and Autonomy of Women in the Brazilian Rural Environment
Chapter 12: Personal Well-being and Hope in Population in Situation of Poverty in Merida, Mexico
Chapter 13: Indigenous Epistemologies and Visions on Poverty: Aesthetics and Spirituality as Resistance
Chapter 14: Poverty and Youth: psychosocial implications, ways of life and coping with daily adversities
Chapter 15: Strategies to tackle poverty: an analysis based on studies carried out with people in psychic suffering and prostitutes
Conclusion