ABSTRACT

This chapter takes another step closer with the analysis. This chapter presents two cases, focusing on the use of money and relationships to get by in poverty. Teresa and Natalie’s interviews are summarised (though still lengthy) to present the complexity and the differences in two otherwise similar lives in poverty. The chapter, as a companion to the more theoretical information of Chapter 5, hopes to instil a sense of happening in the contextualisation of poverty, that this happens in complex and complicating ways. The chapter should provide tools, while not explicitly spelled out, to find out more about poverty when entangled with it as a professional or a just a person. But most importantly the chapter allows a chance for the reader to have solidarity with the struggle of getting by.