"Encountering Poverty disrupts the new optimism about poverty action, challenging mainstream frameworks of global poverty. Going beyond poverty as a problem tha

Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved through economic

Encountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the c

Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.

In this book the authors show that the risk of economic vulnerability has been increasing substantially over the past four decades, and argue that while not una