Materializing Poverty

How the Poor Transform Their Lives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-10-10
Mått158 x 237 x 20 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAnthropology of Daily Life
Antal sidor192
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780759124219

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ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Wealth of PovertyChapter One. More than Artifacts: The Materiality of PovertyChapter Two. Building Futures: Squatting as an Enabling ConstraintChapter Three. Too Big to Ignore: The State and the Persistence of SquattingChapter Four. ¡Crisis is Coming! Material Manifestations of Immaterial EndsChapter Five. Moving Places: Barrios as Barometers of National ProgressChapter Six. Flexible Identities: Negotiating Values Through Material FormsCodaGlossaryBibliography

What is poverty? In answer, we need more than statistics, we need to understand what is experienced as poverty. Through scholarly and incredibly rich ethnography Taylor shows the consequence of appreciating that it is the poor rather than the rich whose experience is dominated by materiality. Materializing Poverty is an account that respects both the creativity and the constraints that may accompany poverty. People from all disciplines would be better educated in this essential issue by reading this empathetic engagement which goes beyond the meaning of poverty to how the poor create meaning.