Poverty Blindness: Exploring the Diagnosis and Treatment of an Epidemic Condition

Despite the historical and social significance of poverty, scholars from varied ideological and philosophical disciplines have often observed that its most notable feature is its invisibility. We suggest that poverty is not excluded from view, but rather from consciousness. This lack of consciousness is due to a subjective “poverty blindness” on the part of those who fail to take the poor into account. In this article we explore this new concept...