Romanticizing the Poor

Aneel Karnani

Chapter Chapter 4 in Fighting Poverty Together, 2011, pp 85-109 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Even as the economic gap between the rich and the poor is growing steadily larger, the physical gap between the rich and the poor is narrowing.1 Slums are often just a short walk from upscale beaches or border posh neighborhoods, and shantytowns can be found near luxury resorts. The media brings images of the poor into the living rooms of the advantaged everyday. It is not possible, nor politically correct, to just ignore poverty. The affluent can actually visit poor neighbourhoods and photograph or film the poor in their “natural habitat,” either sanitizing or romanticizing their lives. Indeed, entertainment and poverty have come together: poortainment.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Sexist Prejudice; Alcohol Policy; Alcohol Industry; Vulnerable Consumer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230120235_4

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