Среда, бедност и бъдеще
Environment, Poverty and Future

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the results of a participant observation (2000–2023), a qualitative study (2023) and a quantitative questionnaire study conducted in two stages (2002 and 2017) with the aim of investigating how the residents of Glaveva Mahala (the poorest part of the Faculteta Roma neighborhood) understand poverty and how living in poverty affects young people’s life perspectives. The environment, comprehended as human relationships, as a source of stimuli, and as an ecological habitat to give protection to vulnerability, forms community norms and hierarchy that further reproduce poverty and keep boundaries rigid and impermeable. The results relate to two models of thinking about poverty: forms of urban marginality (Waquant, 2008b) and a nine-dimensional model for explaining poverty (Bray et al., 2019). This article adds new nuances and dimensions of poverty in Glaveva Mahala to the nine dimensions of poverty according to Bray et al.’s model.

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