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Poverty in Common : The Politics of Community Action during the American Century /

This work looks at inter-related post WWII case studies to analyze the ways in which different groups, mostly governmental agencies and emerging activist organizations, invoked the idea of ""community"" in anti-poverty initiatives during the late 1950s and 1960s

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Goldstein, Alyosha
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Now, we're our own government?
  • Freedom between: inequality and the democracy of felt needs
  • On the internal border: colonial difference and the locations of underdevelopment
  • The civics and civilities of poverty: participation, policing, and the poor peoples campaign
  • The surplus of inclusion: poverty, pluralism, and the politics of community
  • Thresholds of opposition: liberty, liberation, and the horizon of incrimination
  • Conclusion : peculiar freedom: community and poverty, from new Federalism to Neoliberalism.