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| Prior NSF Support Lawson’ NSF award from 2010 to 2012, is titled ‘Reframing Poverty: what role for the Middle Classes?’ grant SBR #0962689. This planning visit award from OISE facilitated comparative research discussions on one aspect of relational poverty: the links between middle class vulnerability, identities and poverty politics in Argentina and the United States. Lawson and Elwood organized and led a workshop involving a U.S. team of four faculty and four graduate students to collaborate with a group of Argentine scholars and students in discussions of relational poverty that led to this network proposal. The planning visit generated several key insights. First, our theoretical discussions identified complementarities between research on relational poverty in each country, built new conceptual insights and underscored the importance of researching poverty in a comparative temporal and spatial framework. Second, we reviewed existing quantitative and qualitative data on relational poverty, finding several data sets that could form the basis for comparative research but identifying the need for further work to discern how particular data sets and variables might be considered comparable. We also identified further data needs as well as the desirability of extended comparison including other countries that are differently positioned within the global economy. Third, we designed empirical case studies for the U.S. and Argentina in order to pilot the in-common research design approach. Our work affirmed the need for a social sciences research network to advance our collective research. Download 268.48 Kb. Share with your friends:
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