...Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia; Miranda Jessica Lubbers; Jose Luis Molina Purpose The aim of the paper is to ethnographically detail the poverty-shame nexus in contemporary Spain, and to highlight the contradictions of the newly adopted consumption-based models of inclusion led by charities. Design...

.... Demonstrating altered funding structures permits a political and socioeconomic reconfiguration of poverty, it asks what this means for charity work. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws upon data from 12 months ethnographic fieldwork in a charity in England. It explores the permeation of competition...

... poverty as partly “self-inflicted” (Somers and Block, 2005 , p. 268), and a prevailing narrative suggested that relief policies of the preceding decades had harmed the poor by perversely incentivizing dependency on welfare (Somers and Block, 2005 , pp. 265-266). These political trends culminated...

... observations and informal interviews with individuals located under the official poverty threshold. Findings Symbolic family bonds among different individuals are created through the entwining of interconnectedness, obligation and commitment, sense of belonging, interdependence and the projection...

... rights only Ethnography Poverty NGOs Iceland Charity Marginalization This contribution analyses the ambiguous relationship that Icelandic charities and NGOs have with the formal social welfare services they collaborate with as well as the clients they serve. The paper is based upon...