Territories of Poverty
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor peopleas movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of povertyawhether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundationsaas multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.As Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore outline in their essay in this book, the present historical conjuncture involves new regimes of fast policy, what they call amodel power, a aorchestrated from global centers of persuasion, enacted through expert anbsp;...
| Title | : | Territories of Poverty |
| Author | : | Ananya Roy, Emma Shaw Crane |
| Publisher | : | University of Georgia Press - 2015-11-15 |
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