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The neoliberal rationale driving the rise of local regimes for the management of poverty crystallises in project-led solutions financed by private donors and charities, targeting and strict means-testing, assistance in kind, and emergency provisions. The ‘urgency’ of reforms invests poverty management with a particular quality of emergency in many respects, affecting the relations between different providers and constraining the perception of the needs of the poor and the field of thinking about alternatives. Emergency is a way of ‘rolling with’ and adjusting to neoliberalism. Moreover, we find that ways of relating, seeing, and imagining under conditions of emergency cannot be conceived purely in terms of a market rationality but draw on historically shaped mentalities towards poverty that distinguish between the visible and the invisible poor.
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Arapoglou, V.P., Gounis, K. (2017). Landscapes of Emergency: Roll-With Poverty Management?. In: Contested Landscapes of Poverty and Homelessness In Southern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62452-5_6
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