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Relational poverty politics : forms, struggles, possibilities /

This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lawson, Victoria A. (Editor ), Elwood, Sarah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Colección:Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 39.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • INTRODUCTION (Un)Thinkable Poverty Politics / Sarah Elwood and Victoria Lawson
  • Safety Net Politics: Economic Survival among Impoverished Grandmother Caregivers / Lashawnda Pittman
  • Differential Inclusion through Social Assistance: Migration, Precarity, and Diversity in Singapore / Junjia Ye
  • Illegality, Poverty, and Higher Education: A Relational Perspective on Undocumented Students and Educational Access / Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales
  • Staying Alive: AIDS Activism as U.S. Relational Poverty Politics / Jeff Maskovsky
  • India's Land Impasse: Infrastructure, Rent, and Resistance / Preeti Sampat
  • Abject Economies, Illiberal Embodiment, and the Politics of Waste / David Boarder Giles
  • Crushing Red Shirts and Restoring Amart Privilege: Relations between Violence, Inequality, and Poverty in Thailand / Jim Glassman
  • Thinking from June 2013 in the Brazilian Metropolis: New Urban Political Assemblages, Old State-Society Relations / Felipe Magalhães
  • "Check Your Privilege": The Micropolitics of Cross-Status Alliances in the DREAM Movement / Thomas Swerts
  • Ethnographic Alliance: Hope and Knowledge Building through a South African Story / Antonádia Borges
  • Theater, Hunger, Politics: Beginning a Conversation / Dia Da Costa and Richa Nagar
  • CONCLUSION Politicizing Poverty / Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood.