Erin B. Taylor

Materializing Poverty (eBook, ePUB)

How the Poor Transform Their Lives

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation. Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities, and fulfill emotional needs. In Materializing Poverty, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use their material resources creatively to solve everyday problems and, over a few decades, radically transform the community. Their struggles show how these everyday engagements with materiality, rather than more dramatic efforts, generate social change and build futures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759124226
• Artikelnr.: 39888783

Autorenporträt

Erin B. Taylor is an Australian anthropologist who received her PhD from The University of Sydney in 2009. She lectured there for three years before taking up a research fellowship at The University of Lisbon. During this time, she helped found the popular anthropology website PopAnth: Hot Buttered Humanity.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Wealth of Poverty Chapter One.
More than Artifacts: The Materiality of Poverty Chapter Two. Building
Futures: Squatting as an Enabling Constraint Chapter Three. Too Big to
Ignore: The State and the Persistence of Squatting Chapter Four. ¡Crisis is
Coming! Material Manifestations of Immaterial Ends Chapter Five. Moving
Places: Barrios as Barometers of National Progress Chapter Six. Flexible
Identities: Negotiating Values Through Material Forms Coda Glossary
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