Livelihoods at the margins : surviving the city / James Staples, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Staples, James, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban poor--Developing countries.

Urban poor.

Sociology, Urban--Developing countries.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners-they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood and notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. In Livelihood on the Margins, anthropologists and practitioners engaged in hands-on development work use fine-grained ethnographic research to cut through the conventional narratives that romanticize, victimize, or demonize these populations. They go beyond the trendy "sustainable livelihoods" approach to development to examine the relationship between the agency people can actually wield...

Contents:

Introduction : livelihoods at the margins / James Staples

No money, no life : surviving on the streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland

Embodying oppression : revolta amongst young people living on the streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler

Children on the streets of Dhaka and their coping strategies / Alessandro Conticini

Hindu nationalism and failing development goals : micro-finance, women and illegal livelihoods in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen

Keeping it clean : discipline, control and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody

Fast money in the margins : migrants in the sex industry / Laura Maria Agustin

Begging questions : leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai / James Staples

Vulnerable in the city : Adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah

"Moving up and down looking for money" : making a living in a Ugandan refugee camp / Tania Kaiser

"In-betweenness" on the margins : collective organisation, ethnicity and political agency among Bolivian street traders / Sian Lazar.

Notes:

First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-42527-0

1-315-42528-9

1-315-42529-7

1-59874-761-4

9781315425290

OCLC:

655116858