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Livelihoods at the margins : surviving the city /
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 wo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Left Coast Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 o |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781598747614 1598747614 1315425297 9781315425290 1315425289 9781315425283 |