Poverty as injustice

dc.contributor.authorBrand, J.F.D. (Jacobus Frederick Daniel, 1968- )
dc.contributor.authorDe Beer, Stephanus Francois
dc.contributor.authorDe Villiers, Isolde
dc.contributor.authorVan Marle, Karin
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-06T09:17:24Z
dc.date.available2014-06-06T09:17:24Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe title and thus broad framing of this article is "poverty as injustice". The implicit other side of the claim "poverty as injustice" is that justice would mean the absence of poverty. Our contention is that the understanding of poverty as a practical social problem in the first place rather than as a manifestation of injustice results in an approach to poverty that is focused solely on technical and managerial solutions to poverty. Such approaches to poverty are problematic because they lose sight of the political dimensions of poverty, that is, the fact that poverty is embedded in a particular ideology. A definition of "poverty" as inadequate access to basic living resources, such as, food, water, housing and health care, surfaces the political dimensions of poverty. What determines access to these basic resources is economic and political power. Any response to poverty must therefore engage power. At the heart of any response to poverty must be the search for, and the ideal of, justice.en_US
dc.description.librarianam2014en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.jutalaw.co.za/catalogue/itemdisplay.jsp?item_id=8843en_US
dc.identifier.citationBrand, D, De Beer, S, De Villiers, I & Van Marle, K 2013, 'Poverty as injustice', Law, Democracy & Development, vol. 17, pp. 273-297.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1028-1053 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2077-4907 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4314/ldd.v17i1.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/40042
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJuta Lawen_US
dc.rightsJuta Lawen_US
dc.subjectPovertyen_US
dc.subjectInjusticeen_US
dc.subjectAbsence of povertyen_US
dc.subjectSocial problemen_US
dc.titlePoverty as injusticeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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