Encountering poverty : thinking and acting in an unequal world / created by Ananya Roy, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, and Clare Talwalker ; with illustrations by Abby VanMuijen.

By:

Roy, Ananya [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Poverty, Interrupted | Poverty, InterruptedPublisher: University of California Press, 2016Description: 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780520277908 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520277902 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520277915 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520277910 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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LOC classification:

HC79.P6 ENC

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.

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 against inequality by foregrounding, not sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical dilemmas of poverty action today."--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 against inequality by foregrounding, not sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical dilemmas of poverty action today."--Provided by publisher.

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