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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790341703321

Titolo

Indigenous peoples, poverty, and development / / edited by Gillette H. Hall, Harry Anthony Patrinos [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-36633-5

1-107-23132-9

1-280-87801-0

1-139-37892-9

9786613719324

1-139-10572-8

1-139-37606-3

1-139-38035-4

1-139-37207-6

1-139-37749-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 406 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Indigenous peoples - Social conditions

Indigenous peoples - Economic conditions

Indigenous peoples - Government relations

Poverty

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction / Gillette H. Hall and Harry Anthony Patrinos -- Indigenous peoples and development goals : a global snapshot / Kevin Alan David Macdonald -- Becoming indigenous : identity and heterogeneity in a global movement / Jerome M. Levi and Biorn Maybury-Lewis -- Indigenous peoples in Central Africa : the case of the Pygmies / Quentin Wodon, Prospere Backiny-Yetna, and Arbi Ben-Achour -- China : a case study in rapid poverty reduction / Emily Hannum and Meiyan Wang -- India : the scheduled tribes / Maitreyi Bordia Das [and others] -- Laos : ethnolinguistic diversity and disadvantage / Elizabeth M. King and Dominique van de Walle --



Vietnam : a widening poverty gap for ethnic minorities / Hai-Ahn Dang -- Latin America / Gillette H. Hall and Harry Anthony Patrinos -- ; Conclusion / Gillette H. Hall and Harry Anthony Patrinos.

Sommario/riassunto

This book documents poverty systematically for the world's indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The volume compiles results for roughly 85 percent of the world's indigenous peoples. It draws on nationally representative data to compare trends in countries' poverty rates and other social indicators with those for indigenous sub-populations and provides comparable data for a wide range of countries all over the world. It estimates global poverty numbers and analyzes other important development indicators, such as schooling, health and social protection. Provocatively, the results show a marked difference in results across regions, with rapid poverty reduction among indigenous (and non-indigenous) populations in Asia contrasting with relative stagnation - and in some cases falling back - in Latin America and Africa.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140467503321

Autore

Shackelford Laura

Titolo

Tactics of the human : experimental technics in American fiction / / Laura Shackelford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2015

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2014

ISBN

9780472900169

0472900161

9780472052387

0472052381

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

LIT004020SOC052000

Disciplina

813.009/356

Soggetti

Experimental fiction, American - History and criticism

Literature and the Internet - United States

Hypertext fiction - History and criticism

Human body and technology in literature

Literature and technology - United States

American fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction examines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext fiction. These literary experiments with early digital cultures from the 1990s comparatively retrace and speculate on the digital's transformative influence on prior understandings of the human, of social lives, and of individuals' relations to material lifeworlds, exploring the consequences of the apparent plasticity of the boundaries of the human, particularly for women, subaltern subjects, and others already considered liminally human. As these texts query the digital technics entering into textual practices, subjectivity, spatial practices and social networks, lived space, nation, and economic circulation, they reconceive their own literary print narrative methods and material modes of circulation in order to elaborate on unnoticed potentialities and limits of digital technics, providing a crucial means to reorient digital cultures of the present"--