Poverty law and legal activism : lives that slide out of view /

"Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism. The book argues that we nee...

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Main Author: Gearey, Adam
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
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Table of Contents:
  • Lives that slide out of view
  • Something happening : activism and the problem of the "white ally"
  • Come together one more time : poverty and critical legal studies
  • The poor and the constitution
  • Reification and the consciousness of the welfare poor
  • I must make something of myself : conscience, anxiety and "being with" the poor
  • Theory in the key of life : the anxiety of the poverty lawyer
  • A long way to nowhere : remembering the movement
  • Diving for dear life : poverty law and the broken middle
  • Kick out the jams : poverty and critical legal theory