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Autore |
Roy Ananya |
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Titolo |
City requiem, Calcutta : gender and the politics of poverty / / Ananya Roy |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Collana |
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Globalization and community ; ; v. 10 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Poverty - India - Calcutta |
Poor women - India - Calcutta |
Women in development - India - Calcutta |
Calcutta (India) Social conditions |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-277) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Ananya Roy's book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty. |
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