Social welfare policies and programmes in South Asia
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"Based on critical theory and ethnographic research, this book explores how intensifying geographies of extractive capitalism shapes human lives and transformative politics in marginal areas of the global economy. Engaging the work of Judith Butler, Henri Lefebvre, and Jacque Ra…
Introduction -- Welfare and Work: State Autonomy Revisited -- Urban Poverty and Informal Work -- A Political Economy Overview: Karnataka and Bangalore -- New Slums: Migration, Livelihoods and Living -- Old Slums -- Impact of Slum Housing Policies: Bangalore's New Ghettoes -- Wom…
"To our knowledge, Poorly Understood is the first book to systematically address and confront many of the most widespread myths pertaining to poverty. Throughout each of our careers we have encountered these myths on a routine basis. They can be found virtually everywhere - from…
"Carl Anthony's memoir interweaves urban history, racial justice, and cosmology with personal experiences as an architect/planner, environmentalist, and Black American. By connecting struggles for social and racial justice to the Universe Story, it creates new story for our time…
This title offers an intriguing examination of 16 representative black megachurches and explores some of their motivations and subsequent programmatic efforts in light of prosperity or 'health and wealth' theology.
