Screen LibraryEncountering poverty : thinking and acting in an unequal world /
"Encountering Poverty disrupts the new optimism about poverty action, challenging mainstream frameworks of global poverty. Going beyond poverty as a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions, the book focuses on the power and privilege underpinning per...
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University of California Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oakland, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Poverty, Interrupted ;
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| Summary: |
"Encountering Poverty disrupts the new optimism about poverty action, challenging mainstream frameworks of global poverty. Going beyond poverty as a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions, the book focuses on the power and privilege underpinning persistent impoverishment. It explores poverty action's place in the opportunities and limits of the current moment, with its rapacious market forces and resurgent social and civil rights movements. Encountering Poverty invites students, educators, activists, and development professionals to think and act |
| Carrier Form: | 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520277915 0520277910 9780520277908 0520277902 |
| Index Number: | HC79 |
| CLC: | F113.9 |
| Call Number: | F113.9/R888 |
| Contents: | Introducing poverty / Ananya Roy, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Clare Talwalker -- Encountering poverty / Ananya Roy -- Governing poverty / Ananya Roy -- Modeling poverty / Kweku Opoku-Agyemang -- Fixing poverty / Clare Talwalker -- Teaching poverty / Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales. |