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1 online resource. |
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| Series |
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 24
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Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 24.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Why Territories of Poverty Now? -- Introduction: The Aporias of Poverty -- Section 1 Programs of Government -- What Kind of Problem Is Poverty? The Archeology of an Idea -- Representation: An Archeology of Poverty for the Present -- Is Poverty a Global Security Threat? -- Paying for Good Behavior: Cash Transfer Policies in the Wild -- Data-Mining for Development? Poverty, Payment, and Platform -- Representation: Fast Policy in a Mobile World -- Section 2 The Ethics of Encounter -- Disaster Markets and the Poverty Factory -- Representation: The Privatization of Everything? -- Our Past, Your Future: Evangelical Missionaries and the Script of Prosperity -- Representation: Moving Beyond the Geography of Privilege -- The Duration of Inequality: Limits, Liability, and the Historical Specificity of Poverty -- Funding the Other California: An Anatomy of Consensus and Consent -- Section 3 Geographies of Penality and Risk -- Class, Ethnicity, and State in the Making of Marginality: Revisiting Territories of Urban Relegation -- Representation: Poverty Action in Neighborhoods of Relegation -- From Poor Peripheries to Sectarian Frontiers: Planning, Development, and the Spatial Production of Sectarianism in Beirut -- Gray Areas: The War on Poverty at Home and Abroad -- Spatializing Citizenship and the Informal Public -- Representation: The Bridge between Design and Poverty Action -- Conclusion: Theory Should Ride the Bus -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
| Summary |
Territories 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. Contributors: Somaya Abdelgany, Vincanne Adams, Hiba Bou Akar, Teddy Cruz, Luis Flores, Alyosha Goldstein, Christina Gossmann, Akhil Gupta, Ju Hui Judy Han, Michael B. Katz, Erica Kohl-Arenas, Anh-Thi Le, Bill Maurer, Jamie Peck, Rebecca Peters, Ananya Roy, Stuart Schrader, Emma Shaw Crane, Nik Theodore, Stephanie Ullrich, Loïc Wacquant. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poverty.
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Poverty. |
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Equality.
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Equality. |
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Poor -- Political activity.
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Poor -- Political activity. |
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Poor. |
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Public welfare.
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Public welfare. |
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Economic assistance, Domestic.
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Economic assistance, Domestic. |
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Economic assistance.
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Economic assistance. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Roy, Ananya.
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Crane, Emma Shaw.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780820348421 0820348422 (DLC) 2015005761 (OCoLC)904505955 |
| ISBN |
9780820348445 (electronic book) |
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0820348449 (electronic book) |
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9780820348421 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0820348422 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780820348438 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0820348430 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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