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Romanticizing the Poor

In: Fighting Poverty Together

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  • Aneel Karnani

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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.

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  • Aneel Karnani, 2011. "Romanticizing the Poor," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Fighting Poverty Together, chapter 0, pages 85-109, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-12023-5_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230120235_4
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