Figure 1.Forms of agency exercised in poverty (Lister 2021: 129). The figure presents a four-quadrant model by Ruth Lister (2021) illustrating the forms of agency exercised in poverty. Agency is divided horizontally between Personal—Political and vertically between Everyday—Strategic, which creates four quadrants of agency. Top left quadrant (Everyday—Personal) is ‘Getting by’, top right quadrant (Everyday—Political) is ‘Getting back (at)’, bottom left quadrant (Strategic—Personal) is ‘Getting out’ and bottom right quadrant (Strategic—Political) is ‘Getting organised’.