
Encountering Poverty
Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 8. March 2016
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-520-27790-8 (ISBN)
Description
Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions. By focusing on the power and privilege that underpin persistent impoverishment and using tools of critical analysis and pedagogy, the authors explore the opportunities for and limits of poverty action in the current moment. Encountering Poverty invites students, educators, activists, and development professionals to think about and act against inequality by foregrounding, rather than sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical dilemmas of poverty action today.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-520-27790-8 (9780520277908)
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Ananya Roy | Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales | Kweku Opoku-Agyemang
Encountering Poverty
Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World
E-Book
03/2016
1st Edition
University of California Press
€29.49
Available for download
Persons
Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. Genevieve Negron-Gonzales is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of San Francisco. Kweku Opoku-Agyemang is Global Poverty and Practice Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Clare Talwalker is Lecturer in International and Area Studies and Vice Chair of Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.
Content
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. INTRODUCING POVERTY 2. ENCOUNTERING POVERTY 3. GOVERNING POVERTY 4. MODELING POVERTY 5. FIXING POVERTY 6. TEACHING POVERTY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES INDEX CONTENTS