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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The violent cycle created by systemic poverty is often incredibly hard to escape.
Chapter 3: Social inequalities manifest across every aspect of British society today.
Chapter 4: Your social relationships profoundly shape and influence your entire life.
Chapter 5: Urban regeneration projects don’t always benefit the working class.
Chapter 6: Speaking openly about poverty brought McGarvey both praise and backlash.
Chapter 7: To solve social problems, we must genuinely listen to the working class.
Chapter 8: In order to become sober, McGarvey had to reevaluate his entire identity.
Chapter 9: Anger and resentment won’t make the world around you better.
Description
Poverty Safari (2017) is an unflinching and intimate account of life within Britain’s most marginalized communities. Scottish rapper Darren McGarvey draws on his own difficult personal history growing up poor in Glasgow to present an impassioned polemic on the causes, effects, and lived experiences of social and economic deprivation.
Who Should Listen
- Budding activists interested in mixing theory with personal history
- Middle-class readers seeking informed insight on the working class
- Anyone concerned about the pernicious effects of social inequality