Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World by Ananya Roy (Eng

Description: Encountering Poverty by Ananya Roy, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Clare Talwalker 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Flap " Encountering Poverty is a genre-busting book, hybrid critical textbook and scholarly monograph, that pushes the reader to reflect on her or his preconceptions about, and desire to redress, global poverty. Its provocative arguments and deployment of innovative teaching tools will stimulate the most seasoned poverty scholar-educator."--Eric Sheppard, coauthor of A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development "In a neo-neoliberal era of philanthrocapitalism, globalized microfinance, and expanding entrepreneurial efforts at enlisting the poor in market foster care, Encountering Poverty critically reminds us that students of poverty need to think about their own complicity in the processes that produce the suffering of poor people. But far from leading us to a place of paralysis and moralistic self-flagellation, the authors advance a more reflective and constructive approach, arguing that we can still take modest steps against massive global inequality even as we navigate its contradictions and complexities. Out of the docility and dead ends of neoliberal responsibilization, Encountering Poverty enables new and more reflexive response abilities for a world in crisis."--Matthew Sparke, author of Introducing Globalization Author Biography Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. Genevieve Negron-Gonzales is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of San Francisco. Kweku Opoku-Agyemang is Global Poverty and Practice Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Clare Talwalker is Lecturer in International and Area Studies and Vice Chair of Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. Table of Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. INTRODUCING POVERTY 2. ENCOUNTERING POVERTY 3. GOVERNING POVERTY 4. MODELING POVERTY 5. FIXING POVERTY 6. TEACHING POVERTY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES INDEX CONTENTS Details ISBN0520277902 Author Clare Talwalker Short Title ENCOUNTERING POVERTY Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520277902 ISBN-13 9780520277908 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 362.5 Affiliation University of California, Berkeley, USA Year 2016 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Pages 208 Illustrations black & white illustrations Series Poverty, Interrupted Series Number 2 UK Release Date 2016-03-08 Publication Date 2016-03-08 AU Release Date 2016-03-08 NZ Release Date 2016-03-08 US Release Date 2016-03-08 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159523783;

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