Encountering poverty : thinking and acting in an unequal world / Ananya Roy, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Clare Talwalker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roy, Ananya, Author.

Negrón-Gonzales, Genevieve, Author.

Opoku-Agyemang, Kweku, Author.

Series:

Poverty, Interrupted ; [2].

Poverty, Interrupted ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Poverty--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introducing Poverty

2. Encountering Poverty

3. Governing Poverty

4. Modeling Poverty

5. Fixing Poverty

6. Teaching Poverty

Acknowledgments

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520962736

0520962737

OCLC:

938898904