Psychosocial Implications of Poverty

Part I. Critical and psychosocial perspectives on poverty.- Chapter 1. Research in Psychology in the contexts of poverty: For what and for whom?.- Chapter 2. Social Representations of Poverty.- Chapter 3. Social inequality and psychology: perspective for the debate on poverty.-Chapter 4. Stigmatization of Poverty: Bases of Prejudice and Violence against the Poor.- Chapter 5.  Experiences of Humiliation and Shame: a psychosocial analysis in Brazilian contexts of poverty.- Chapter 6. Poverty, stigma and drug use: reflections on a perverse relationship.- Chapter 7. The perception of social conditions and its impact on the inclusion processes of people in extreme poverty and social exclusion.- Part II. Strategies of Resistance and fight against poverty.- Chapter 8. Practices of resistance to the stigmatization of poverty: possible pathways.- Chapter 9. Social Support as a way of tackling poverty.- Chapter 10. The poverty stoplight and its psychosocial and multidimensional approach.- Chapter 11. Poverty, gender relations and women's autonomy in the Brazilian rural environment.- Chapter 12. Personal well-being and hope in population living under poverty conditions in Merida, Mexico.- Chapter 13. Indigenous Epistemologies and Visions on Poverty: Aesthetics and Spirituality as Resistance.- Chapter 14. Poverty and Youth: psychosocial implications, ways of life and coping with daily adversities.- Chapter 15. Strategies to tackle poverty: an analysis based on studies carried out with people in psychic suffering and prostitutes.- Chapter 16. Pathways to overcoming poverty: reflections on the path of inclusion of the poor student in higher education.

Verônica Morais Ximenes is a full professor at the Department of Psychology, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. She holds a PhD in Psychology from University of Barcelona, Spain, and has developed post-doctoral studies at the Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is the coordinator of the Nucleus of Community Psychology (NUCOM in Portuguese) at the Federal University of Ceará, which develops teaching, research and extension activities in Community Psychology. She is also a former coordinator of the working group on Community Health of the Brazilian National Association of Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP) and was the president of the 5th International Conference on Community Psychology. She conducts research on the psychosocial implications of poverty in partnership with the Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mexico, and is a member of the Latin American Network for Training in Community Psychology. She directsher academic activities in the following themes: community psychology, psychosocial implications of poverty, public policies, contexts of social vulnerability and others. Dr. Ximenes holds a productivity grant level 2 from the Brazilian National Council for Researcher and Technological Development (CNPq).

James Ferreira Moura Jr. is adjunct professor at the Institute of Humanities, University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony, Brazil, and professor at the Graduate Program in Psychology, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and coordinates the Network of Studies and Confrontations of Poverty, Discrimination and Resistance (reaPODERE in Portuguese), which develops activities of critical teaching, research and collaborative extension programs. He is a collaborating researcher at the Nucleus of Community Psychology (NUCOM) at the Federal University of Ceará and