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DTSTART:20120510T140000Z
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LOCATION:Room 113, 32 Old Elvet, Durham
SUMMARY:SASS Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:'Power, not pity': poverty and human rights Presented by: Prof
 essor the Baroness (Ruth) Lister of Burtersett. Emeritus Professor of Soci
 al Policy, Department of Social Sciences Loughborough University  ‘P
 ower, not pity' is a demand articulated by the Poor People's Economic Huma
 n Rights Campaign in the US. The paper will discuss the ways in which some
  poverty activists are deploying a discourse of human rights in order to s
 take their claim to power and to recognition as well as redistribution. It
  will argue that, for all the difficulties associated with it in a UK cont
 ext, a human rights discourse helps to combat the negative identity associ
 ated with poverty. Ruth Lister 
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