Geographical relational poverty studies. (December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Elwood, Sarah; Lawson, Victoria; Sheppard, Eric
• Is Part Of: Progress in human geography. Volume 41:Number 6(2017)
• Page Start: 745
• Page End: 765
• Publication Date: 2017-12
• Subjects: epistemology -- ontology -- postcolonial geographies -- relational poverty -- relationality; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1177/0309132516659706
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-1325

Abstract

Relationality is a persistent concern of socio-spatial theory, increasingly invoked in geographical scholarship. We bring geographical scholarship on relationality to bear on relational poverty studies, an emergent body of work that challenges mainstream approaches to conceptualizing, explaining, researching and acting upon poverty. We argue that relationality scholarship provides ontological, theoretical, and epistemological interventions that extend prior relational poverty work. We synthesize these three elements to develop an explicitly geographical relationality and show how this framework offers a politics of possibility for knowing and acting on poverty in new ways.