Governing the Poor: Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid

by Anita Lacey and Suzan Ilcan

Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved. Global generations present the poor as a heterogeneous group and stress globalized solutions to the problem of poverty. Governing the Poor exposes the ways in which such generalized descriptions and quantifications marginalize the poor and their experiences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773538054
• ISBN13: 9780773538054
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"