Recent Approaches of Urban Poverty

Abstract

This article brings together, according to different approaches, the studies that contribute to the recent debate on urban poverty, without intending to exhaust them. It begins with an overview of the conceptions of poverty developed throughout the twentieth century, focusing on the development of a liberal perspective on the subject, as well as on social approaches, based on Marxist foundations and Christian principles. It continues by addressing the "new urban poverty" approach in the recent debate, from the Marxist perspective regarding the impacts from productive restructuring resulting from globalization, at the turn of the twenty-first century. Finally, it addresses the recent discussion on poverty through the category of social vulnerability, developed on the basis of a neoliberal perspective of social disadvantages, as well as from the neo-Marxist perspective on the curtailment of rights.