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Author: Ananya Roy ,
Emma Shaw Crane
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9780820348421
ISBN 10: 0820348422
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 30 November 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"This book offers a springboard that hopefully will help us move beyond the Global South label given to countries that...are considered less developed than those in the Global North.--Joseli Macedo ""Journal of Planning Education and Research"" This innovative collection of essays seeks to enact a new way of thinking about poverty research, welfare policy, and development practice. It does so by drawing into explicit conversation two distinct traditions of research -American-based scholarship on the histories and practices of modern welfare systems, and critical ethnographies of development in the global South. . . . For any one book to do one of these three things would be commendable enough; for it to succeed across all three areas is what makes this book more than a mere collection but an essential reference point for an emerging field of inquiry into the historical geographies of problematizations.--Clive Barnett ""Space and Polity"" Most noteworthy in the Territories of Poverty project is the incorporation of detailed local ethnographies in a global context displaying the bewildering variety of capitalism's many faces, be it in post-Katrina disaster relief, city planning in war-torn Beirut, securitizing of debt through microfinance in Bangladesh, or Korean evangelizing in East Africa. This is the biggest strength of the book, making it a must read in any graduate seminar on poverty.--Lakshman Yapa ""Economic Geography"""
Most noteworthy in the Territories of Poverty project is the incorporation of detailed local ethnographies in a global context displaying the bewildering variety of capitalism's many faces, be it in post-Katrina disaster relief, city planning in war-torn Beirut, securitizing of debt through microfinance in Bangladesh, or Korean evangelizing in East Africa. This is the biggest strength of the book, making it a must read in any graduate seminar on poverty.--Lakshman Yapa Economic Geography
Most noteworthy in the <i>Territories of Poverty</i> project is the incorporation of detailed local ethnographies in a global context displaying the bewildering variety of capitalism's many faces, be it in post-Katrina disaster relief, city planning in war-torn Beirut, securitizing of debt through microfinance in Bangladesh, or Korean evangelizing in East Africa. This is the biggest strength of the book, making it a must read in any graduate seminar on poverty.--Lakshman Yapa Economic Geography
Author Information
Ananya Roy is professor of city and regional planning and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practiceat the University of California, Berkeley. Emma Shaw Crane is a doctoral student in American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, USA. She was previously a research fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
