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Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820348421)
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xTerritories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people's movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized.
In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty--whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations--as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.Author: Ananya Roy
ISBN-10: 0820348422
ISBN-13: 9780820348421
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2015
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
By Ananya Roy
xAnanya Roy (Editor)
ANANYA ROY is a professor of urban planning and social welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles where she also holds The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy and serves as inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. Emma Shaw Crane (Editor)
EMMA SHAW CRANE is a doctoral student in American studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She was previously a research fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley.
ANANYA ROY is a professor of urban planning and social welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles where she also holds The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy and serves as inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. Emma Shaw Crane (Editor)
EMMA SHAW CRANE is a doctoral student in American studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She was previously a research fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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