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
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2012.
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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.