Governing the Poor
Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2011
- Subjects
- Economic Policy
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773586611
- Publish Date
- Mar 2011
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
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.
About the authors
Suzan Ilcan is professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo and in the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is co-author of Governing the Poor: Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid.