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The research sheds some light over the continuities and discontinuities on representations of poverty in the past three centuries. Aiming to question the idea of modernity and its intrinsic need of incorporating every society under the same linear logic of progress, the research seeks to provide an understanding on how representations of the "other" throughout history, have led to a series of interventions based upon western conceptions of poverty since the late seventeenth century until today.

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Bateman, Andres
Anthropologist from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá-Colombia, Master in World History from the Universität Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona-Spain, Master in Global Studies from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in Berlin - Germany and PhD candidate from the same university.Project consultant and researcher focused on poverty in Colombia.

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