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Livelihoods at the Margins - Surviving The City (Hardcover)
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Livelihoods at the Margins - Surviving The City (Hardcover)
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This book is an edited volume based on selected papers from a
two-day interdisciplinary and multi-regional conference held at
SOAS in July 2004. Taken individually, each of the chapters offer
fine-grained ethnographic analyses of the varying contexts in which
particular marginalised groups - such as Bangladeshi street
children, Ugandan drug dealers and migrant European sex workers -
make a living on the social boundaries of different urban
environments across the globe. Taken together, the contributions
serve to unpack taken-for-granted understandings of terms like
marginality, poverty and deprivation, while offering more nuanced
ways of interpreting people's strategies for survival than
mainstream economic analyses generally allow. Refusing to
pathologise the marginal, the authors collectively demonstrate how
the practices they describe - from casual labouring to begging -
are embedded both within the broader contexts of global capitalism
and within the very specific circumstances in which they occur.
This is reflected in the ordering of the chapters, which aim to
take the reader on an informative journey that shifts back and
forth from the micro to the macro, encountering broader discussion
of salient social scientific concerns along the way. The tensions
between explanatory models that favour agency over structure and
how we might overcome those tensions, for example, are innovatively
dealt with in several chapters, and a number of them address issues
of social exclusion; everyday survival-strategies; and the
implications of livelihoods at the margins for NGO action and
Government policy. Contributors are drawn from anthropology,
development studies and cultural studies backgrounds, and between
them their research for this collection spans eight countries
across four continents.
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