Livelihoods at the Margins : Surviving the City.
Title:
Livelihoods at the Margins : Surviving the City.
Author:
Staples, James.
ISBN:
9781598747614
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One - Introduction: Livelihoods at the Margins / James Staples -- Chapter Two - No Money, no Life: Surviving on the Streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland -- Chapter Three - Embodying Oppression: Revolta amongst Young People Living on the Streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler -- Chapter Four - Children on the Streets of Dhaka and their Coping Strategies / Alessandro Conticini -- Chapter Five - Hindu Nationalism and Failing Development Goals: Micro-Finance, Women and Illegal Livelihoods in the Bombay Slums / Atreyee Sen -- Chapter Six - Keeping it Clean: Discipline, Control and Everyday Politics in a Bangkok Shopping Mall / Alyson Brody -- Chapter Seven - Fast Money in the Margins: Migrants in the Sex Industry / Laura María Agustín -- Chapter Eight - Begging Questions: Leprosy and Alms Collection in Mumbai / James Staples -- Chapter Nine - Vulnerable in the City: Adivasi Seasonal Labour Migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah -- Chapter Ten - 'Moving Up and Down Looking for Money': Making a Living in a Ugandan Refugee Camp / Tania Kaiser -- Chapter Eleven - 'In-betweenness' on the Margins: Collective Organisation, Ethnicity and Political Agency among Bolivian Street Traders / Sian Lazar -- Index -- About the contributors.
Abstract:
Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners-they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood and notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. In Livelihood on the Margins, anthropologists and practitioners engaged in hands-on development work use fine-grained ethnographic research to cut through the conventional narratives that romanticize, victimize, or demonize these populations. They go beyond the trendy "sustainable livelihoods" approach to development to examine the relationship between the agency people can actually wield over their own lives and the broader socio-political constraints that persistently push them to the margins. Making these multi-level connections across a wide range of world regions and situations, this volume shows how the micro-concerns of ordinary people might usefully guide the macro-concerns of governments, NGOs, and global institutions who are engineering large-scale social and economic development programs. Livelihood at the Margins is an engaging and eye-opening read for undergraduate and graduate students studying development in anthropology, sociology, geography, economics, and other disciplines, as well as a useful tool for developments studies researchers and practitioners.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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