Mary O'Hara (Freelance Journalist)

Broschiertes Buch

The Shame Game

Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative

Beschreibung

Drawing on a two-year multi-platform initiative, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary Oâ Hara, asks how we can overturn the fundamentally pernicious portrayal of poverty once and for all. Crucially, she turns to the real experts to try to find answers â the people who live it.

Autor

Mary O'Hara is an award-winning journalist, author and producer. Her journalism appears in publications including The Guardian and Mosaic Science. She is the author of two books: The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative (2020) & Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK (2014) and is founder of the multi-platform anti-poverty initiative, Project Twist-It. Mary has directed/produced short films, run a comedy club, been a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley and a producer and consultant on Getting Curious podcast with Jonathan Van Ness. In 2020 she was named Best Foreign Columnist at the Southern California Journalism Awards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781447349266
• ISBN-10: 1447349261
• Artikelnr.: 57172125