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Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award
This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and
the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It
sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or
circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth," or
authoritative knowledge about poverty. Such dominant practices are
challenged by alternative paradigms of development, and the book
details these as well. Using the case of microfinance, the book
participates in a set of fierce debates about development - from
the role of markets to the secrets of successful pro-poor
institutions. Based on many years of research in Washington D.C.,
Bangladesh, and the Middle East, Poverty Capital also grows out of
the author's undergraduate teaching to thousands of students on the
subject of global poverty and inequality.
Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award
This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and
the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It
sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or
circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth," or
authoritative knowledge about poverty. Such dominant practices are
challenged by alternative paradigms of development, and the book
details these as well. Using the case of microfinance, the book
participates in a set of fierce debates about development from the
role of markets to the secrets of successful pro-poor institutions.
Based on many years of research in Washington D.C., Bangladesh, and
the Middle East, Poverty Capital also grows out of the author's
undergraduate teaching to thousands of students on the subject of
global poverty and inequality.
Since its foundation in 1977 IJURR has been at the cutting-edge of
critical urban scholarship. IJURR is taking forward its commitment
to interdisciplinary and international urban research, connecting
with new audiences and debates, consolidating its position as a
leading publication in the field. Explores questions and themes of
interest to a wide readership including urban planners, architects
and practitioners. Includes both stand-alone articles and critical
dialogues Connects with critical debates in the policy-making and
professional arenas Uses visual materials ranging from
architectural sketches, film stills and photographs to various
explanatory figures and tables
This collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the
ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban
spaces. Such workings are intended to provide multiple forms of
autonomy and empowerment but instead create intolerable
contradictions that are experienced in the form of a slavish
adherence to machines. Representing the novelty of a
post-anthropocentric grammar, this book points towards a new
ethical and political praxis. It challenges the anthropocentrism of
bio-politics and neoliberalism in order to express the constitutive
potential of an eco-sensible 'new earth'.
This collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the
ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban
spaces. Such workings are intended to provide multiple forms of
autonomy and empowerment but instead create intolerable
contradictions that are experienced in the form of a slavish
adherence to machines. Representing the novelty of a
post-anthropocentric grammar, this book points towards a new
ethical and political praxis. It challenges the anthropocentrism of
bio-politics and neoliberalism in order to express the constitutive
potential of an eco-sensible 'new earth'.
Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global
poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that
can be solved through economic resources or technological
interventions. By focusing on the power and privilege that underpin
persistent impoverishment and using tools of critical analysis and
pedagogy, the authors explore the opportunities for and limits of
poverty action in the current moment. Encountering Poverty invites
students, educators, activists, and development professionals to
think about and act against inequality by foregrounding, rather
than sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical
dilemmas of poverty action today.
The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization.
Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the
developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book
presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to
demonstrate these trends. The contributions reveal that informal
housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a
significant zone of transactions for the middle-class and even
transnational elites. Indeed, the book presents a rich view of
'urban informality' as a system of regulations and norms that
governs the use of space and makes possible new forms of social and
political power. The book is organized as a 'transnational'
endeavor. It brings together three regional domains of
research—the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia—that
are rarely in conversation with one another. It also unsettles the
hierarchy of development and underdevelopment by looking at some
First World processes of informality through a Third World research
lens.
Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of
Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban
labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled
and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions:
such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a
communism for the new millennium -- where, at a moment of
liberalization, the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced. An
ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Roy's book explores
the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty.
City Requiem, Calcutta emphasizes how gender itself is
spatialized, and how gender relations are negotiated within the
geopolitics of modernity and through the everyday practices of
territory. Thus Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its
populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage,
and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois
Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. In doing so, her work
expands the field of poverty studies by showing how a politics of
poverty is also a poverty of knowledge, a construction and
management of social and spatial categories.
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South
geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging
theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the
American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international
development regimes, these essays confront how povertyis
constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes
bureaucracies of poverty, poor people's movements, and global
networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of
poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans
to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally
concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to
studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty
engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community
development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the
unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial
matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization.
This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty-whether by
globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile
money or philanthrocapitalist foundations-as multiple terrains of
struggle for justice and social transformation.
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South
geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging
theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the
American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international
development regimes, these essays confront how povertyis
constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes
bureaucracies of poverty, poor people's movements, and global
networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of
poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans
to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally
concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to
studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty
engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community
development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the
unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial
matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization.
This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty-whether by
globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile
money or philanthrocapitalist foundations-as multiple terrains of
struggle for justice and social transformation.
Since its foundation in 1977 IJURR has been at the cutting-edge of
critical urban scholarship. IJURR is taking forward its commitment
to interdisciplinary and international urban research, connecting
with new audiences and debates, consolidating its position as a
leading publication in the field. Explores questions and themes of
interest to a wide readership including urban planners, architects
and practitioners Includes both stand-alone articles and critical
dialogues Connects with critical debates in the policy-making and
professional arenas Uses visual materials ranging from
architectural sketches, film stills and photographs to various
explanatory figures and tables.
Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global
poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that
can be solved through economic resources or technological
interventions. By focusing on the power and privilege that underpin
persistent impoverishment and using tools of critical analysis and
pedagogy, the authors explore the opportunities for and limits of
poverty action in the current moment. Encountering Poverty invites
students, educators, activists, and development professionals to
think about and act against inequality by foregrounding, rather
than sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical
dilemmas of poverty action today.
A vital response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this volume connects the
neoliberal underpinnings of the pandemic to the philosophy of
Deleuze and Guattari. By positioning the worst outcomes of the
COVID-19 crisis in terms of neoliberal normativity, contributors
argue that we need to understand the pandemic rhizomatically.
Construed as an event that deterritorializes the globe, the crisis
of the pandemic contains within it the potential for creating new
assemblages, alliances, and solidarities to offset the power of the
state in building regimes of exclusion, insulation and control.
Deleuzo-Guattarian attention towards non-human life finds new
meaning in the context of the virus, and our understanding of what
constitutes life and inorganic life. Crisis, capitalism, and
revolution are read anew through the pandemic and core
Deleuzo-Guattarian concepts help to situate the proliferation of
new models of mutual aid, sustainability, and care in the context
of anti-capitalist critique.
Virtually every school of public health teaches a global health
course, yet the major textbooks provide little on the actual
practice of international health. This new book comprises a series
of vivid first person accounts in which physicians,
epidemiologists, health workers, and public health professionals
from around the world present the critical dilemmas and challenges
facing the field. Aimed primarily at medical and public health
students and professionals, this book will be a much-needed
addition to the existing literature. Related fields, such as
development and urban studies, will find this book an engaging
introduction to the core issues of international development.
International health practitioners, national and local
policymakers, foundations officers, and other related professionals
will also find it an invaluable compendium. "The Practice of
International Health is a beautifully conceived and beautifully
written book. It offers an inspiring example of what may be
accomplished when scholars with field experience break free of
rigid disciplinary boundaries in order to examine key problems in
international health. This case-based approach is precisely the one
that will allow us to build a new field based on broad
understandings of these problems and on the solutions that might
follow. The need for and vibrant potential of such a focus on
practice that resonates in every page of this book signals its
profound relevance to students and teachers of public health, and,
one hopes, to policy makers and funders." From the Foreward by Paul
Farmer
The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization.
Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the
developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book
presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to
demonstrate these trends. The contributions reveal that informal
housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a
significant zone of transactions for the middle-class and even
transnational elites. Indeed, the book presents a rich view of
"urban informality" as a system of regulations and norms that
governs the use of space and makes possible new forms of social and
political power. The book is organized as a "transnational"
endeavor. It brings together three regional domains of research-the
Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia-that are rarely in
conversation with one another. It also unsettles the hierarchy of
development and underdevelopment by looking at some First World
processes of informality through a Third World research lens.
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