Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development

Politics & Social Sciences

Roy, Ananya

Sociology

Routledge

Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth," or authoritative knowledge about poverty. Such dominant practices are challenged by alternative paradigms of development, and the book details these as well. Using the case of microfinance, the book participates in a set of fierce debates about development – from the role of markets to the secrets of successful pro-poor institutions. Based on many years of research in Washington D.C., Bangladesh, and the Middle East, Poverty Capital also grows out of the author's undergraduate teaching to thousands of students on the subject of global poverty and inequality.

Poverty Capital

Business & Money

Economics

Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth," or authoritative knowledge about poverty. Such dominant practices are challenged by alternative paradigms of development, and the book details these as well. Using the case of microfinance, the book participates in a set of fierce debates about development – from the role of markets to the secrets of successful pro-poor institutions. Based on many years of research in Washington D.C., Bangladesh, and the Middle East, Poverty Capital also grows out of the author's undergraduate teaching to thousands of students on the subject of global poverty and inequality.

Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World (Poverty, Interrupted) (Volume 2)

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 invites students, educators, activists, and development professionals to think about and act against inequality by foregrounding, rather than sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical dilemmas of poverty action today.

Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World (Volume 2) (Poverty, Interrupted)

Negrón-Gonzales, Genevieve

Opoku-Agyemang, Kweku

Talwalker, Clare

University of California Press

City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender And The Politics Of Poverty (Volume 10) (Globalization and Community)

Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism for the new millennium -- where, at a moment of liberalization, the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced. An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Roy's book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty.
City Requiem, Calcutta emphasizes how gender itself is spatialized, and how gender relations are negotiated within the geopolitics of modernity and through the everyday practices of territory. Thus Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. In doing so, her work expands the field of poverty studies by showing how a politics of poverty is also a poverty of knowledge, a construction and management of social and spatial categories.

Self-Help

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Social Sciences

City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender And The Politics Of Poverty

University of Minnesota Press

Since its foundation in 1977 IJURR has been at the cutting-edge of critical urban scholarship. IJURR is taking forward its commitment to interdisciplinary and international urban research, connecting with new audiences and debates, consolidating its position as a leading publication in the field. <ul> <li>Explores questions and themes of interest to a wide readership including urban planners, architects and practitioners</li> <li>Includes both stand-alone articles and critical dialogues</li> <li>Connects with critical debates in the policy-making and professional arenas</li> <li>Uses visual materials ranging from architectural sketches, film stills and photographs to various explanatory figures and tables</li> </ul>

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 42, Issue 1 (IJURR Single Issue Purchases)

Wu, Fulong

GANDY, Matthew

Dikeç, Mustafa

wiley

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