Livelihoods at the margins :: surviving the city /

Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners-they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood and notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. In Livelihood on the Margins, anthropologists and practitioners engaged in hands-on development wo...

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Weitere Verfasser: Staples, James, 1966-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2007.
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Zusammenfassung:Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners-they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood and notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. In Livelihood on the Margins, anthropologists and practitioners engaged in hands-on development work use fine-grained ethnographic research to cut through the conventional narratives that romanticize, victimize, or demonize these populations. They go beyond the trendy "sustainable livelihoods" approach to development to examine the relationship between the agency people can actually wield o
Beschreibung:1 online resource (272 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781598747614
1598747614
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9781315425290
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