Materializing poverty : how the poor transform their lives / Erin B. Taylor.

By:

Taylor, Erin B

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : AltaMira Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780759124226
0759124221

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Materializing povertyDDC classification:

305.5/69097293/75 23

LOC classification:

HN219.S2 T39 2013eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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