Towards a phenomenology of poverty: Defining poverty through the lived experiences of the ‘poor’

Reeves, Laura Simpson; Parsell, Cameron; Liu, Shuang

doi:10.1177/1440783319851204

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“…The Combating Persistent Poverty, 10-20-30 Works report highlighted the success of the 10-20-30 formula and suggested its expansion as a next step, [77] with actual expansion enacted under the Targeting Resources to Communities in Need Act of 2022 [75]. In the US and in other countries, national conversations about poverty are often rooted in an income-based, poverty-line approach [78,79]. Because of the wide-ranging impact stemming from how poverty is understood, assessing and enriching that understanding becomes critical.…”

Section: Piloting a Fair Approach To Collaboration -Low Socioeconomic...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The etiology, impact, and experience of poverty differs for the many communities that make up the US [74] -from the Colonias of the Rio Grande to the counties of Central Appalachia to Indigenous communities and inner cities. Basing conversations primarily on income means they are disconnected from the lived experience of poverty, the reality of people's lives, and their living conditions [78,79]. Scholars studying poverty have pointed to the need for an approach rooted in community realities to understand how policies and interventions achieve varying levels of success or create unintended consequences such as exacerbating disparities [80].…”

Section: Piloting a Fair Approach To Collaboration -Low Socioeconomic...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Centering and collaborating with community knowledge systems: piloting a novel participatory modeling approach

Shaikh

Jeelani²,

Gibbons³

et al. 2023

Int J Equity Health

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Background Systems science approaches like simulation modeling can offer an opportunity for community voice to shape policies. In the episteme of many communities there are elders, leaders, and researchers who are seen as bearers of historic knowledge and can contextualize and interpret contemporary research using knowledge systems of the community. There is a need for a systematic methodology to collaborate with community Knowledge Bearers and Knowledge Interpreters. In this paper we report the results of piloting a systematic methodology for collaborating with a community Knowledge-Bearer and Knowledge-Interpreter to develop a conceptual model revealing the local-level influences and architecture of systems shaping community realities. The use case for this pilot is ‘persistent poverty’ in the United States, specifically within the inner-city African American community in Baltimore City. Methods This pilot of a participatory modeling approach was conducted over a span of 7 sessions and included the following steps, each with an associated script: Step 1: Knowledge-Bearer and Knowledge-Interpreter recruitment Step 2: Relationship building Step 3: Session introduction, Vignette development & enrichment Step 4: Vignette analysis & constructing architecture of systems map Step 5: Augmenting architecture of systems map Results Each step of the participatory modeling approach resulted in artifacts that were valuable for both the communities and the research effort. Vignette construction resulted in narratives representing a spectrum of lived experiences, trajectories, and outcomes within a community. The collaborative analysis of vignettes yielded the Architecture of Systemic Factors map, that revealed how factors inter-relate to form a system in which lived experience of poverty occurs. A literature search provided an opportunity for the community to contextualize existing research about them using realities of lived experience. Conclusion This methodology showed that a community Knowledge Bearer can function as communicators and interpreters of their community’s knowledge base, can develop coherent narratives of lived experiences within which research and knowledge is contextualized, and can collaboratively construct conceptual mappings necessary for simulation modeling. This participatory modeling approach showed that even if there already exists a vast body of research about a community, collaborating with community gives context to that research and brings together disparate findings within narratives of lived experience.

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Section: Piloting a Fair Approach To Collaboration -Low Socioeconomic...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Piloting a Fair Approach To Collaboration -Low Socioeconomic...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Centering and collaborating with community knowledge systems: piloting a novel participatory modeling approach

Shaikh

Jeelani²,

Gibbons³

et al. 2023

Int J Equity Health

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“…Dahal (2022) suggests that the research on lived experiences should adopt a multi-layered approach to the meanings attached to it and practices carried out by social actors at a given temporal-spatial context. Therefore, the investigation of lived experiences in relation to the welfare delivery is the rediscovery of their voices that are marginalised in the society (Reeves et al, 2020). Consequently, what is lacking is a conceptual framework to theorise the welfare claiming experiences in relation to the social systems at different levels.…”

Section: A Multi-level Institutional Approach To Welfare Claiming Exp...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With regard to the notion of lived experience, Mcintosh and Wright (2019) hold that individuals' social positions produce and mediate shared experiences, and social policy researchers should unfamiliarise and locate those taken‐for‐granted events and the personal interaction with a set of institutions. Knowledge about poverty and welfare could not be divorced from the sense‐making of people below the poverty line in claiming benefits (Reeves et al, 2020). Patrick (2017) proposes a bottom‐up approach to the conditionality regime, considering the gatekeeping process of recipient governance as ‘everyday citizenship’.…”

Section: A Multi‐level Institutional Approach To Welfare Claiming Exp...mentioning

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When means‐testing meets work‐testing: A multi‐level institutional analysis of claiming in‐work benefits in Hong Kong

Au‐Yeung¹,

Wong

Tang

et al. 2023

Int J Soc Welfare

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While there is a growing body of literature on the lived experiences of people in poverty, their interaction with the welfare delivery system at different levels is still under‐theorised. This article presents a multi‐level institutional framework to qualitatively study the low‐income families' experiences in claiming in‐work benefits (IWBs). Considering the Low‐income Working Family Allowance (LIFA) in Hong Kong as an extreme case of IWB's residualism and productivism, the findings suggest that LIFA claimants faced cycles of counter‐productive re‐assessment in their everyday frontline practices, and underwent organisational barriers in workplaces and families in collecting the proofs required by the means‐testing and work‐testing procedures. These experiences were linked to Hong Kong's macro‐systemic contexts that prioritised long working hours and strict targeting of low‐wage breadwinners. This study contributes to the literature by linking social policy implementation and welfare delivery to claiming experiences, and empirically reveals the complexities of IWBs using means‐tests and work‐tests.

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“…Sifat miskin cenderung multidimensional (Alkire et al, 2017;Alkire & Foster, 2011) sehingga beberapa pakar mengkategorikannya secara bermacam-macam. Bila diamati dari tingkat keparahannya, terdapat dua jenis kemiskinan yakni kemiskinan absolut dan kemiskinan relatif (Decerf & Ferrando, 2022;Foster, 1998;Reeves et al, 2020; Aun Falestien Faletehan / Kemiskinan Kronis Berkelanjutan di Masyarakat Kawasan Hutan Rejekingsih, 2009). Bila dinilai dari faktor penyebab kemiskinan, maka terdapat tiga macam kemiskinan, yakni kemiskinan natural, kemiskinan kultural dan kemiskinan struktural (Brady, 2019;Sumodiningrat, 1998).…”

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Kemiskinan Kronis Berkelanjutan di Masyarakat Kawasan Hutan

Faletehan

2023

J. Ilmu Sos. Human.

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Studi tentang kemiskinan kronis di kawasan hutan tidak begitu banyak dilakukan meski literatur terdahulu selalu mengaitkan antara konsep kemiskinan dan kawasan hutan. Dengan mengambil pendekatan kualitatif bergenre fenomenologi di Dusun Malangbong, Kabupaten Bojonegoro, Jawa Timur pada tahun 2021, artikel ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan karakteristik rumah tangga miskin kronis di pedesaan kawasan sekitar hutan dan faktor-faktor yang menyebabkan keberlanjutan kemiskinan kronis tersebut. Hasil riset mengidentifikasi bahwa rumah tangga miskin kronis di kawasan hutan memiliki permasalahan ekonomi mulai dari mata pencaharian yang tidak menguntungkan, trend pendapatan yang selalu menurun, rendahnya kualitas hidup, dan buruknya kualitas kesehatan mereka. Mereka tetap miskin karena adanya faktor internal dan eksternal. Faktor internal yang menyebabkan kelanggengan miskin kronis adalah rendahnya kualitas pendidikan, terlalu bergantung pada kayu hutan dan rendahnya kreativitas dalam usaha, terbatasnya sumber daya air, dan pola pikir pengelolaan uang rumah tangga yang tidak efektif. Di sisi lain, faktor eksternal yang membentuk kemiskinan kronis adalah terisolirnya mereka dari pusat desa/kota, rusaknya infrastruktur jalan penghubung antar dusun/desa, dan keterbatasan sarana perekonomian di desa. Dengan mengetahui akar problem kemiskinan di masyarakat kawasan hutan, temuan artikel ini diharapkan bisa dimanfaatkan oleh pihak-pihak terkait untuk merumuskan strategi pengentasan kemiskinan yang dirasa tepat untuk jenis masyarakat ini.

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Towards a phenomenology of poverty: Defining poverty through the lived experiences of the ‘poor’

Cited by 10 publications

References 59 publications

Centering and collaborating with community knowledge systems: piloting a novel participatory modeling approach

Centering and collaborating with community knowledge systems: piloting a novel participatory modeling approach

When means‐testing meets work‐testing: A multi‐level institutional analysis of claiming in‐work benefits in Hong Kong

Kemiskinan Kronis Berkelanjutan di Masyarakat Kawasan Hutan

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