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Hipatia Press
2017
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- The Visual Rethoric of a Self-Advocacy Organization on Poverty: All about Courage? Heidi Degerickx Angelo Van Gorp Griet Roets Historia self poverty advocacy Visual rhetoric pedagogical aesthetic At the beginning of the 1990s, several European welfare states installed a policy on poverty that explicitly recognised the voice and life knowledge of people in poverty. The idea of talking ‘with’ the poor came to prominence instead o f talking ‘about’ or ‘to’ people in poverty. Beresford and Croft (1995) proclaimed a possible paradigm shift from advocacy to self - advocacy. In Belgium, in the aftermath of the General Report on Poverty (1994), grassroots organisations such as ATD Fourth W orld and BMLIK (Movement of People with Low Income and Children ) gained recognition as ‘organisations where people in poverty take the floor’. BMLIK launched the photobook Courage (1998) which contains prominent black and white photographs portraying fami lies in deep poverty combined with oral testimonies. The central question we ask is whether and how this photobook can be considered an emblematic case for the framing of poverty as a violation of human rights, and for the way the self - advocacy paradigm ha s been materialised in this. Through a visual - rhetorical analysis (Foss, 1994) of Courage we present our research findings wherein the ‘pedagogical aesthetic’ (Trachtenberg, 1990) of socially engaged photography comes to the fore, as well as how this contr ibutes to social change and justice. 2017 artículo científico 2014-3567 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317049848003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3170 Social and Education History application/pdf Hipatia Press Social and Education History (España) Num.1 Vol.6