Middle-Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 123-143

  Elwood, Sarah ^a   Lawson, Victoria ^a   Nowak, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cross class alliance; middle class; poverty politics; relational poverty; whiteness

Indexed keywords

CLASS; NEIGHBORHOOD; POVERTY; URBAN SOCIETY; VULNERABILITY;

SEATTLE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84917691099     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.968945     Document Type: Article

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