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The shape of change: A memetic analysis of the definitions of poverty from the 1970s to the 2000s

✍ Scribed by Federica Misturelli; Claire Heffernan

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
127 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0954-1748

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The authors illustrate how notions of poverty are constructed around specific β€˜memes’, or replicating units of cultural information, around which concepts and ideas develop and change. Three β€˜memes’ characterising definitions of poverty over the previous years were identified: β€˜basic needs’, β€˜multidimensional’ and β€˜deprivation’. The analysis illustrated the semantic space in which each term was utilised and to the extent it changed and modified over time by different actors. The results revealed how β€˜memes’ compete with one another across the discourse. Within this competition, older concepts are almost never fully abandoned, but rather repackaged and reutilised. Thus, new definitions of poverty are less innovative than portrayed in the wider literature. Copyright Β© 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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