Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Back: Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty whetherby globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation. ANANYA ROY is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. EMMA SHAW CRANE is a doctoral student in American studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She was previously a research fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley. Cover design: Kaelin Chappell Broaddus Cover illustration: Editor photos: Courtesy of theeditor/ Photo by Christie Goshe The University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org ISBN (paper) 978-0-8203-4843-8"Biographical Note: ANANYA ROY is professor and Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy and director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. EMMA SHAW CRANE is a doctoral student in American studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She was previously a research fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley. Publisher Marketing:"Territories of Poverty" challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, "Territories of Poverty" engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation."

Contributor Bio:  Roy, Ananya Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. GenevieveNegron-Gonzales is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of San Francisco. Kweku Opoku-Agyemang isGlobal Poverty and Practice Postdoctoral Fellowat theUniversity of California, Berkeley. Clare Talwalker is Lecturer in International and Area Studies and Vice-Chair of Global Poverty and Practice at theUniversity of California, Berkeley. Contributor Bio:  Cowen, Deborah Deborah Cowen is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto. Contributor Bio:  Peck, Jamie Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British ColumbiaContributor Bio:  Maurer, Bill Bill Maurer is dean of social sciences and professor of anthropology and law at the University of California, Irvine. Contributor Bio:  Goldstein, Alyosha Alyosha Goldstein is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Contributor Bio:  Kohl-Arenas, Erica Erica Kohl-Arenas is Assistant Professor at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School in New York. Contributor Bio:  Adams, Vincanne Vincanne Adams is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution. Stacy Leigh Pigg is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She is the editor of the journal Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. Contributor Bio:  Wacquant, Loic Loic Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre europeen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris. He is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and recipient of the 2008 Lewis Coser Award of the American Sociological Association. His work spans urban inequality, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, embodiment, and social theory and the politics of reason. He is a founder and past editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography and was a regular contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique for a decade. Wacquant's books have been translated in some dozen languages and include Body and Soul: Ethnographic Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (2004), Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (2008), Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2009), Prisons of Poverty (2009), and Deadly Symbiosis: Race and the Rise of the Penal State (forthcoming). Contributor Bio:  Gupta, Akhil Akhil Gupta is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.