Rural Poverty and Well-Being: Material and Sociocultural Disconnections

Abstract

This chapter specifically focuses on well-being in rural areas and seeks to broaden understandings of poverty within community well-being research. This chapter aims to construct bottom-up accounts of the relationship between the material, social, and cultural dimensions of poverty and well-being by drawing on the narratives of individuals living on low income in rural places. To do this, the chapter utilises statistical data from a survey of households in rural Wales and qualitative materials from interviews with people living below the official poverty threshold. However, it is important first to explore the nature of poverty and well-being as revealed by recent scholarship in this area. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)