Creative Nonfiction Shortlist
This Is What Inequality Looks Like
What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? Why should we try?
This book asks readers to pose questions in different ways, and in so doing, to see themselves as part of problems and potential solutions.
This is a book about how seeing poverty entails confronting inequality. It is about how acknowledging poverty and inequality leads to uncomfortable revelations about our society and ourselves.
And it is about how once we see, we cannot, must not, unsee.
Author
Teo You Yenn
Teo You Yenn is Associate Professor and Provost’s Chair in Sociology at Nanyang Technological University.
Over the last decade, she has contributed to public debate through public lectures and media commentaries. Her writings have been published in The Straits Times, Today, Channel NewsAsia and Lianhe Zaobao.
For her contributions to igniting conversation on social inequality with the book This is What Inequality Looks Like, she was named a Finalist in the Straits Times Singaporean of the Year Award in 2018.