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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820099303321

Autore

Grech Shaun

Titolo

Disability and Poverty in the Global South : Renegotiating Development in Guatemala / / by Shaun Grech

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

1-137-30798-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development

Classificazione

BUS068000SOC042000SOC045000

Disciplina

362.4097281

Soggetti

Economic development

Economic policy

Sociology

Poverty

Development economics

Development Studies

Development Policy

Sociology, general

Development Aid

Development Economics

Guatemala Social conditions

Guatemala Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Disability, Poverty And Development: Mapping The Terrain -- 2. Guatemala: Context, History And Disability Landscapes -- 4. Disability And Poverty: Connections And Transitions -- 5. Disability And Povery: More Connections -- 6. Disabled Families: Survival Struggles And Collective Impoverishment -- 7. Un/Transforming Structures: The Institutional Framework -- 8. Final Reflections.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing from long term ethnographic work and practice in Guatemala, this incisive and interdisciplinary text brings in perspectives from critical disability studies, postcolonial theory and critical development



to explore the various interactions and dynamics between disability and extreme poverty in rural areas.