ISBN:
0816639329
,
0816639329
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 288 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Globalization and community v. 10
Parallel Title:
Print version City Requiem, Calcutta : Gender and the Politics of Poverty
DDC:
306/.0954/147
Keywords:
Poverty
;
Women in development
;
Poor women
;
Calcutta (India) ; Social conditions
;
Poor women ; India ; Calcutta
;
Poverty ; India ; Calcutta
;
Women in development ; India ; Calcutta
;
Electronic books
;
Calcutta (India) Social conditions
Abstract:
An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Ananya Roy's book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; 1. Opening Moves; 2. The Politics of Poverty; 3. Domestications; 4. Dreaming of Tombstones; 5. Disruptions; Postscript(s); Methodological Appendix: Research Strategies and Data Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-277) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
