Child Poverty - by Morag C Treanor (Paperback)

About the Book

Placing children's experiences, needs and concerns at the centre of its examination of contemporary policies and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood, this book examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations and forges a radical new pathway for the future.

Book Synopsis

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are fiercely debated and contested, they are all too often misrepresented in policy and media discourses.

Seeking to redress this problem, Treanor places children's experiences, needs and concerns at the centre of this critical examination of the contemporary policies and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood. She examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations, and their impacts, to interrogate how poverty in childhood is conceptualised and operationalised in policy and to forge a radical pathway for an alternative future.

Review Quotes

"What is distinctive about this book is partly that it is dedicated exclusively to child poverty - but also, that it goes about its business in a fresh, punchy and consistently arresting way. Potently combining quantitative and qualitative data, and taking care at every step to keep the analysis close to the views of those currently living in poverty, it gives an overview of how child poverty manifests itself, and the ways in which it matters, which conveys the multi-dimensional nature of both of these things." Ethics and Social Welfare

About the Author

Morag C. Treanor is Professor of Child and Family Inequalities at the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research (I-SPHERE) at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh