Poverty has been one of the important topics of philosophy and social sciences for a long time. The social and political developments of the last decade, especially the pandemic days we live in, make it necessary both to address poverty once again in the light of philosophy and social sciences and to establish of the true conceptual framework in order to re-discuss the problems and solution proposals. The reasons and the outcomes of poverty today may be listed as follows: imposing heavier working conditions and less wages on labourers which can dramatically be observed even in professional lives of teachers, academicians, lawyers, and physicians whose professions are used to be regarded as safe in the past; lessening some achievements such as severance pay, unemployment pay, provision for children, social security, and so on; uncertain working hours and occupation of free time owing to flexible working; qualifying women’s labour as secondary and belittling domestic labour; benefiting cheap labour of immigrants and minorities; exploitation of child labour; strengthening of the tendency to pay less to employees due to online working conditions; forcing employees to take unpaid leave indefinitely due to pandemic; the increasing number of people oppressed by consumer debt, accompanied by an increase in poverty suicides; inequality in access to education, health and intellectual services; deprivation of healthy food, water and environmental facilities since they are being priced now; and so on.
Although the concept of poverty is associated to “financial subsistence conditions”, it is possible to expand the approaches to the concept as seen below. ViraVerita invites you to contribute to its 14th issue with the subject of “Poverty” volume with your academic works from different disciplines such as economics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, women studies, law, education, literature, film analysis and so on.
Particularly, we encourage submission of papers that deal with the following themes, although we welcome other themes that can be used along these and contribute to the aims of this call for papers, which are: Poverty and economics; Poverty and politics; Neoliberalism and poverty; Covid-19 and poverty; Poverty and women labour; Poverty, migration and discrimination; Poverty and children; Poverty and social policy; Poverty and social justice; Poverty and global justice; Poverty and basic rights; Poverty and alienation; Poverty and psychology; Poverty and violence; Poverty and social movements; Poverty and law; Poverty and ethics; Poverty in literature and cinema.
Editors
Önder Kulak, Ulaş Karadağ, Sibel Kibar
Deadline for articles
July 20th, 2021
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/viraverita