Governing the Poor

Governing the Poor
Author: Suzan Ilcan
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-03-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0773586539


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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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