Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inclusive concept of social exclusion, has made poverty research both more interesting and more complicated. This transition to a more multidimensional conceptualization of poverty forms the background and starting point of this book.

Researchers studying the 'social' and 'spatial' dimensions of poverty have only started to challenge and explore the boundaries of each other's research perspectives and instruments. This book brings together these different bodies of literature on the intersection of spatial and social exclusion for the first time, by providing a state-of-the art review written by internationally-recognized experts who critically reflect on the theoretical status of their research on social exclusion, and on the implications this has for future research and policy-making agendas.

Contents: Prologue; Preface; Part 1 Poverty as a Multidimensional Concept: What forms does poverty take in European societies at the beginning of the 21st century?, Serge Paugam; Income, health and multi-dimensionality, A.B. Atkinson; Making poverty analysis richer: multi-dimensional poverty research for social policy design, Chris de Neubourg, Keetie Roelen and Franziska Gassmann; EU redistributive social policy: social exclusion transcended, Jos Berghman and Annelies Debels; Care partnership, welfare and work: a historical perspective, Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly; Do firms need to be '3rd places' for jobs to be good? Some comments on André Gorz's justification of unconditional income guarantees, Walter van Trier. Part 2 Spatial Dimensions of Poverty: Space in sociology: an exploration of a difficult conception, Christian Kesteloot, Maarten Loopmans and Pascal de Decker; Changing society by rebuilding neighbourhoods: on the effects of restructuring deprived urban areas – experiences from the Netherlands, Jack Burgers; Social reconquest as a new policy paradigm: changing urban policies in the city of Rotterdam, Erik Snel and Godfried Engbersen; Social capital in deprived neighbourhoods, Jürgen Friedrichs and Jennifer Klöckner; Competitiveness, cohesion, and the credit crunch: reflections on the sustainability of urban policy, Mike Raco and Tuna Tasan-Kok; Explanations for the development of large housing estates in North-Western European cities, Ronald van Kempen and Karien Dekker; Conclusion: building bridges between the social and the spatial?, Katrien de Boyser, Caroline Dewilde and Danielle Dierckx; Bibliography; Index.

About the Editor: Katrien De Boyser, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Caroline Dewilde, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Danielle Dierckx, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Jürgen Friedrichs, University of Cologne, Germany

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