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Understanding and Researching Urban Extreme Poverty: A Conceptual-Methodological Approach

Yap, C.; McFarlane, C.

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C. Yap



Abstract

Urban extreme poverty has long been regarded as a vital challenge for policy and practice, but how might we research it? In this paper, we set out a two-step approach to identifying and understanding the nature of urban extreme poverty (UEP). We experiment with an approach that does not define UEP in advance but seeks to examine it through a series of dimensions and approaches. Drawing on the long history of research on UEP, we argue that research would benefit from early scoping in context. This scoping begins by examining how UEP surfaces in relation to five dimensions: material, economic, political, spatial, and emotional-subjective. From that base, we argue for a focus on the causes and form of UEP through dialogue between four epistemic approaches: political economy, political ecology, feminist urbanism, and postcolonial urbanism. We illustrate this approach in relation to two quite distinct cities: Mumbai and Lima.

Citation

Yap, C., & McFarlane, C. (2020). Understanding and Researching Urban Extreme Poverty: A Conceptual-Methodological Approach. Environment and Urbanization, 32(1), 254-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247819890829

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 22, 2019
Online Publication Date Dec 6, 2019
Publication Date 2020
Deposit Date Oct 25, 2019
Publicly Available Date Nov 8, 2019
Journal Environment and Urbanization
Print ISSN 0956-2478
Electronic ISSN 1746-0301
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 32
Issue 1
Pages 254-274
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247819890829

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Yap, C. & McFarlane, C. (2020). Understanding and Researching Urban Extreme Poverty: A Conceptual-Methodological Approach. Environment and Urbanization 32(1): 254-274. © 2019 International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). DOI: 10.1177/0956247819890829





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