The Byways of the Poor: Organizing Practices and Economic Control in the Developing World - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8763538407 ISBN 13 : 9788763538404

Editeur : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012

Synopsis

Two contrasting images typically represent the poor in development studies and practice. On the one hand, they are portrayed as those who do not have: deprivation is the quintessence of their identity, the definition of their being. The very notion of 'poor' dooms the bearer to a subordinate, powerless status. Alternatively, they are idealistically depicted as thriving in solidarity, rich traditions and true authentic experience uncontaminated by capitalist ways of life and harmoniously linked to nature. An analysis of poverty requires stepping back from these stereotypical notions of the poor and examining the ways in which those identified as destitute deploy resources and act in pursuing their livelihoods. Taking cases from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, India, Bangladesh, Peru and Mexico and spanning diverse spheres of interaction: between donors and beneficiaries, local authorities and citizens, employers and employees, as well as between different social and ethnic groups the contributions in this volume focus on people's struggles to alleviate their poverty or to deal with situations of hardship and privation. They challenge traditional approaches within studies on poverty and developing countries by addressing the ways in which resources including land, labour, credit and aid, water and cash, but also knowledge, skills, organisation and moral entitlements are accessed, deployed and negotiated. Whether successful or not, individual and collective efforts to juggle adversity help us understand the mechanisms by which poverty is reproduced, but also contested.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Karsten Paerregaard is associate professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Neil Webster is senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8763538407
• ISBN 13: 9788763538404
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 261
• Éditeur: Paerregaard Karsten, Webster Neil
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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