Pauvre de nous ! La pauvreté entre exclusion, privation et dépossession

Abstract

This article takes a multidisciplinary approach, highlighting the diversity of approaches to the phenomenon of poverty. A first review discusses the interest and limits of approaches to poverty based on the figure of the marginalized, with a focus on income thresholds. A second group of studies takes a closer look at the living conditions of people in precarious situations, emphasizing the importance of the notions of “reste à vivre” and “permanent social insecurity”. A third, and more recent, reading emphasizes the emergence in the Anthropocene era of a new form of poverty, based on the notion of vulnerability and symbolized by the figure of the “migrant” or “climate refugee”.