The book provides a detailed depiction of how mobilizations of the poor and their activities can challenge the perception of the poor across different geographical locations can challenge the dominant forces of society and bring about fundamental change. This leads to the individually shared experience of poor people generating a mass mobilization movement, displaying t he power of the poor.
The author details the movements and actions of several grassroots social movements and how they are mobilizing not simply because of their shared poverty but to challenge the perception of poverty, the way in which it is dealt with and the powerful state and private interests that allow poverty to persist. The book depicts the struggle for adequate land, housing, food and the ability to organize and govern production, alleviating poverty …show more content…
This is expressed through the societal conceptual understanding of poverty, the institutions and arrangements that govern resource availability and access and the continual sustainability of that access as well as understanding the foundations and institutions that orchestrate the generation of poverty and challenges that arise with going up against a system that is built and preys on the disadvantaged and poor members of