Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World Volume 2

by Ananya Roy, Genevieve Negron-Gonzales, Kweku Opoku-Agyemang

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520277910
• ISBN13: 9780520277915
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"