"As long as they don't bury me here" : social relations of poverty in a Namibian shantytown /

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An increasing number of poor Southern Africans live in poverty-stricken urban slums or shantytowns. Focusing on four shantytowns in the northern Namibian town of Oshakati, this book analyses the coping strategies of the poorest sections of such populations. The study is based on fieldwork conducted...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tvedten, Inge (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bollig, Michael (Autor de introducción, etc.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2011.
Colección:Basel Namibia studies series ; 11.
Temas:
Squatter settlements > Namibia > Oshakati.
Poverty > Namibia > Oshakati.
Social networks > Namibia > Oshakati.
Bidonvilles > Namibie > Oshakati.
Pauvreté > Namibie > Oshakati.
Réseaux sociaux > Namibie > Oshakati.
Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Developing & Emerging Countries.
Poverty.
Social conditions.
Social networks.
Squatter settlements.
Stadt
Armut
Slum
Alltag
Oshakati (Namibia) > Social conditions.
Namibia > Oshakati.
Namibia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Back cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Telling their story over many years. An introduction; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1 Introduction; The Setting; Poverty in Anthropology; Analytical Framework; Chapter Outline; 2 The Making of Oshakati and its Shantytowns; Colonial Encounters; War and Atrocities; Oshakati
  • 'A Place Where People Meet'; Moving to Town; Urban Complexity; Shanty Relationships; Shanty Poverty at Independence; 3 Global Space and Urban Place; Flows of the State; Flows of the Market; Flows of the Media; Democracy Comes to Town.
  • 4 The Shanty Population and InequalitiesPopulation and Household Characteristics; Material Conditions; Conclusion; 5 Social Relations of Poverty; 6 Rural Links; Urban-Rural Links; The Better Off; The Poor; Age and Gender; Rural-Urban Links; Dealing with Uncertainty; 7 Urban Connections; The Cosmopolitans; The Straddlers; Men Straddlers; Women Straddlers; The Shanty Localists; Localised Men; Localised Women; Social Isolation; 8 Intra-Household Relationships; Forms of Domesticity; Cohabitation; Single-Headed Households; Conjugal Unions; Manhood and Womanhood; Intergenerational Relations.
  • Violence and Abuse9 Overwhelmed by Poverty; 10 Conclusions; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Bibliography; Index; Back cover.

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