Materializing poverty : how the poor transform their lives /
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 engage...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
AltaMira Press,
[2013]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780759124226 0759124221 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.