Poverty in All Its Forms: Determining the Dimensions of Poverty Through Merging Knowledge

Godinot, Xavier; Walker, Robert

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-31711-9_15

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“…Also importantly, trust-building to empower disadvantaged community members necessitates innovative communication methods (Godinot and Walker 2020 ). For example, Masterson et al ( 2018 ) used photovoice to get a more holistic picture of the multi-faceted dimensions of human well-being in changing socio-environmental systems.…”

Section: Thinking-formentioning

confidence: 99%

A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

2021

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Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science has emerged as a viable answer to current sustainability crises with the aim to strengthen collaborative knowledge production. To expand its transformative potential, we argue that Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science needs to thoroughly engage with questions of unequal power relations and hierarchical scientific constructs. Drawing on the work of the feminist philosopher María Puig de la Bellacasa, we examine a feminist ethos of care which might provide useful guidance for sustainability researchers who are interested in generating critical-emancipatory knowledge. A feminist ethos of care is constituted by three interrelated modes of knowledge production: (1) thinking-with, (2) dissenting-within and (3) thinking-for. These modes of thinking and knowing enrich knowledge co-production in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science by (i) embracing relational ontologies, (ii) relating to the ‘other than human’, (iii) cultivating caring academic cultures, (iv) taking care of non-academic research partners, (v) engaging with conflict and difference, (vi) interrogating positionalities and power relations through reflexivity, (vii) building upon marginalised knowledges via feminist standpoints and (viii) countering epistemic violence within and beyond academia. With our paper, we aim to make a specific feminist contribution to the field of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science and emphasise its potentials to advance this field.

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Section: Thinking-formentioning

confidence: 99%

A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

2021

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“…The environmental dimension of poverty is also acute in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the multidimensionally poor face at least one environmental deprivation (UNDP and OPHI 2020). Poor and disadvantaged people are more exposed to the adverse effects of environmental phenomena such as climate change and environmental degradation due to the numerous links between poverty and the environment (Godinot and Walker 2020;UNDP and OPHI 2020). Since many people living in poverty depend on ecosystemic services for their livelihoods and well-being, the degradation of the natural environment puts the livelihoods of these people at risk (UNDP and OPHI 2020).…”

Section: Global Distribution Of Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Measures in Peri-Urban Areas of Zimbabwe: Case of Mutasa South Peri-Urban

Goba

Gweshengwe

Mabaso

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The question of “how effective poverty eradication measures being implemented in Zimbabwe are” has not been addressed in the context of peri-urban areas. This question must be addressed since the country has a high incidence of poverty and is working towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1 i.e. “No Poverty”. Using a case study of Mutasa South peri-urban, this research therefore sought to answer the question. It adopted an exploratory methodology and data was collected from residents in Mutasa South peri-urban area and key informants from NGOs and Mutasa Rural District Council. The study found that poor people in the study area experience different forms of poverty. Poverty reduction measures being implemented in Mutasa South peri-urban include food aid, education assistance, cash transfer, microfinance and farming programmes. The effectiveness of these measures was examined based on the extent to which the programmes cover the multiple dimensions of poverty found in the study area. As the study found, the programmes take into account all the dimensions of poverty but there are aspects of these dimensions that they pay less attention to and tend to exclude some of the poor.

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“…These dimensions are commonly known, but they still impact people's lives, especially those with a direct experience of poverty (ATD Tanzania, 2019;Wetengere et al, 2022). Since 2010, these dimensions have been covered under the Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Poverty Index and used by the United Nations Development Program (Godinot and Walker, 2020;OPHI, 2021). This multidimensional measure is an essential complement to income poverty indices because it directly measures and compares deprivation.…”

Section: A) Tradition or Commonly Known Dimensions Of Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ranking the Importance of Dimensions of Poverty with People Living in Poverty

Wetengere

Saasita²

2022

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This study employed an explanatory sequential design involving quantitative and qualitative methods to highlight the different dimensions of poverty and explain their importance. This study aimed to rank the importance of the dimensions of poverty with people living in poverty participating as co-researchers on an equal footing with academics and practitioners. The quantitative section of the study used a pairwise “pair-wise comparison,” and the qualitative section was a focused-group discussion that provided insights into the findings from the comparison. The comparisons revealed that the different dimensions of poverty have different impacts on people’s lives. While some dimensions shape the experience of poverty more than others, some make life most intolerable, and some have the greatest impact on improving the quality of life if addressed first. This study recommends that poverty be understood and addressed as a multifactor issue. Second, since different dimensions have different impacts on people’s lives and not all dimensions can be addressed at once, they need to be addressed according to their importance.

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Poverty in All Its Forms: Determining the Dimensions of Poverty Through Merging Knowledge

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

The Effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Measures in Peri-Urban Areas of Zimbabwe: Case of Mutasa South Peri-Urban

Ranking the Importance of Dimensions of Poverty with People Living in Poverty

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