Poverty knowledge in South Africa : a social history of human science, 1855-2005 /

Poverty is South Africa's greatest challenge. But what is 'poverty'? And how can it be measured and addressed? In South Africa, human-science knowledge about the cost of living grew out of colonialism, industrialization, apartheid, and civil resistance campaigns, which makes this know...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davie, Grace, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Poverty > South Africa.
Poverty > Government policy > South Africa.
Poverty > South Africa > Measurement.
Income maintenance programs > South Africa.
Pauvreté > Afrique du Sud.
Pauvreté > Politique gouvernementale > Afrique du Sud.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Income maintenance programs
Poverty
Poverty > Government policy
Poverty > Measurement
South Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the poverty question in South Africa
  • Before poverty measurement : conjuring worlds without want
  • The human sciences in interwar South africa : William Macmillan, I.D. MacCrone, and the Carnegie Commission
  • The minimum standards moment : Edward Batson and the poverty datum line (PDL)
  • Rethinking governmentality : urban planning, rural betterment, and the apartheid state
  • Agitation through quantification : white student activists in the era of black consciousness
  • From people's power to corporate power : poverty research and the transition to democracy
  • Baselines and battle lines: social surveying after apartheid.

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