Articles liés à Materializing Poverty: How the Poor Transform Their...

Materializing Poverty: How the Poor Transform Their Lives - Couverture rigide

Taylor, Erin B.

 
9780759124219: Materializing Poverty: How the Poor Transform Their Lives
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0759124213 ISBN 13 : 9780759124219
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

Synopsis

Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation. Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities, and fulfill emotional needs. In Materializing Poverty, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use their material resources creatively to solve everyday problems and, over a few decades, radically transform the community. Their struggles show how these everyday engagements with materiality, rather than more dramatic efforts, generate social change and build futures.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

Erin B. Taylor is an Australian anthropologist who received her PhD from The University of Sydney in 2009. She lectured there for three years before taking up a research fellowship at The University of Lisbon. During this time, she helped found the popular anthropology website PopAnth: Hot Buttered Humanity.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0759124213
ISBN 13 
9780759124219
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Europaallee 1
Bad Hersfeld
36244
Allemagne