Materializing poverty : how the poor transform their lives /
Taylor, Erin B.
Materializing poverty : how the poor transform their lives / Erin B. Taylor. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the wealth of poverty -- More than artifacts: the materiality of poverty -- Building futures: squatting as an enabling constraint -- Too big to ignore: the state and the persistence of squatting -- "Crisis is coming": material manifestations of immaterial ends -- Moving places: barrios as barometers of national progress -- Flexible identities: negotiating values through material forms.
In this book, 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.
9780759124226 (electronic bk.) 0759124221 (electronic bk.)
Poor--Social conditions.--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo
Material culture--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.
Squatter settlements--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.
Poverty--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.
Social values--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.
Pauvres--Conditions sociales.--République dominicaine--Saint-Domingue
Culture matérielle--République dominicaine--Saint-Domingue.
Bidonvilles--République dominicaine--Saint-Domingue.
Pauvreté--République dominicaine--Saint-Domingue.
Valeurs sociales--République dominicaine--Saint-Domingue.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Material culture.
Poor--Social conditions.
Poverty.
Social values.
Squatter settlements.
Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HN219.S2 / T39 2013eb
305.5/69097293/75
Materializing poverty : how the poor transform their lives / Erin B. Taylor. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the wealth of poverty -- More than artifacts: the materiality of poverty -- Building futures: squatting as an enabling constraint -- Too big to ignore: the state and the persistence of squatting -- "Crisis is coming": material manifestations of immaterial ends -- Moving places: barrios as barometers of national progress -- Flexible identities: negotiating values through material forms.
In this book, 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.
9780759124226 (electronic bk.) 0759124221 (electronic bk.)
Poor--Social conditions.--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo
Material culture--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.
Squatter settlements--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.
Poverty--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.
Social values--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.
Pauvres--Conditions sociales.--République dominicaine--Saint-Domingue
Culture matérielle--République dominicaine--Saint-Domingue.
Bidonvilles--République dominicaine--Saint-Domingue.
Pauvreté--République dominicaine--Saint-Domingue.
Valeurs sociales--République dominicaine--Saint-Domingue.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Material culture.
Poor--Social conditions.
Poverty.
Social values.
Squatter settlements.
Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HN219.S2 / T39 2013eb
305.5/69097293/75