The Poverty Line (Hardcover)

Chow and Lin

ISBN 10: 3037786736 / ISBN 13: 9783037786734

Verlag: Lars Muller Publishers, Baden, 2021

Beschreibung

Hardcover. How the poor eat: an ambitious visual anthropology of diet and poverty in 36 case studies across the world. To demonstrate what it means to live at the poverty line, Beijing-based artist duo Stefen Chow and Huiyi Lin visited 36 countries and territories on six continents - from Germany and China to New York and London - examining poverty with regard to food. From local markets, they bought vegetables, fruits, cereal products, proteins and snacks, basing the amount of food they could afford per day on the respective poverty-line definition set by each government. The duo photographed the resulting food, placed on a page of a local newspaper bought that day, calibrating lighting and shooting distance to ensure uniformity and comparability. In addition, the duo selected nine foods available in most of the economies observed to illustrate the globalization of production and the variations in prices and consumption. With this brilliantly conceived project, Chow and Lin render the problem of poverty visible and comprehensible to all. AUTHORS: Stefen Chow and Huiyi Lin are CHOW AND LIN. The crux of their practice lies in their methodology of statistical, mathematical and computational techniques to address global issues since 2009. 368 illustrations How little is poor? The poverty line as a global phenomenon. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783037786734

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Poverty Line (Hardcover)
• Verlag: Lars Muller Publishers, Baden
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3037786736
• ISBN-13: 9783037786734
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

Poverty, in its universality, seems immediately understandable and yet, as a global problem, its dissolution remains highly complex.To illustrate what it means to live at the poverty line, Stefen Chow and Huiyi Lin visited thirty-six cities on six continents, and examined poverty with regards to food. From the local markets, they bought vegetables, fruits, cereal products, proteins and snacks – the amount of food they could afford per day based on the respective poverty line definition set by each government. They photographed the resulting pile of food, placed on a page of a local newspaper they bought that day. Using visual typology and artistic research as their guiding principle, they carefully calibrated lighting and shooting distance to ensure uniformity and comparability. In this visual reader, Chow and Lin embark on an economic comparison between the thirty-six countries and territories making the problem of poverty visible and comprehensible. In addition to the examination of the poverty line and its meaning across the world, the duo selected nine foods available in most of the economies observed to illustrate the globalization of production and the variations in prices and consumption. The book is enriched by texts that shed light on issues around the poverty line as a global phenomenon: The authors relate to the challenges of our society and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development whose first of seventeen goals is to end poverty in all its forms.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

STEFEN CHOW and HUIYI LIN are CHOW AND LIN. The crux of their practice lies in their

methodology of statistical, mathematical and computational techniques to address global issues since 2009.

ARMIDA SALSIAH ALISJAHBANA is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

ANDREA BRANDOLINI is Deputy Head of the Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research at the Bank of Italy.

JOHN MICKLEWRIGHT is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Social Statistics at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London

LUCAS CHANCEL is an economist who specializes in inequality and the environment.