Encountering Poverty: Thinking And Acting In An Unequal World (Volume 2) (Poverty, Interrupted) - 9780520277908

Encountering Poverty disrupts the new optimism about poverty action, challenging mainstream frameworks of global poverty. Going beyond poverty as a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions, the book focuses on the power and privilege underpinning persistent impoverishment. It explores poverty action's place in the opportunities and limits of the current moment, with its rapacious market forces and resurgent social and civil rights movements. Encountering Poverty invites students, educators, activists, and development professionals to think and act against inequality by foregrounding, not sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical dilemmas of poverty action today.--Provided by publisher.

• | Author: Ananya Roy, Genevieve Negrùn-Gonzales, Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Clare Talwalker
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 08, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 0520277902
• | ISBN-13: 9780520277908