Governing the Poor
| Author | : Suzan Ilcan |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2011-03-14 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780773586536 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0773586539 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (539 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Governing the Poor by : Suzan Ilcan
Download or read book Governing the Poor written by Suzan Ilcan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved. Global generations present the poor as a heterogeneous group and stress globalized solutions to the problem of poverty. Governing the Poor exposes the ways in which such generalized descriptions and quantifications marginalize the poor and their experiences.
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