Leslie Jamison - Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about clas...

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Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

Leslie Jamison

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Sessel-Armutstourismus gibt es schon, solange die Autoren über den Unterricht geschrieben haben. Als Autor habe ich mich mit den Nuancen des Schreibens über Armut auseinandergesetzt, ohne eine Gemeinschaft auf einen Katalog ihrer Schwierigkeiten zu reduzieren.

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