Authors:

  • Matthew Desmond

Excerpt

How should we study social suffering?, Matthew Desmond, 2014, Paper, This commentary argues that intellectual fragmentation is not only bad for the study of poverty, prejudice and penalty; it is bad for the problems themselves. Considering new objects of analysis for research on inequality -- that is, critically reconsidering what it is that we should be studying in the first place -- is proposed as a viable preventative to academic parochialism and overspecialization. Link