03438nam 2200613 a 450 991080898200332120200520144314.01-315-42527-01-315-42528-91-315-42529-71-59874-761-410.4324/9781315425290 (CKB)2550000000017936(EBL)677831(OCoLC)655116858(SSID)ssj0000485609(PQKBManifestationID)11294036(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485609(PQKBWorkID)10603973(PQKB)10470979(MiAaPQ)EBC677831(Au-PeEL)EBL677831(CaPaEBR)ebr10379856(OCoLC)956466785(EXLCZ)99255000000001793620070402d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLivelihoods at the margins surviving the city /James Staples, editor1st ed.Walnut Creek, CA Left Coast Pressc20071 online resource (274 p.)First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.1-59874-272-8 1-59874-273-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : livelihoods at the margins / James Staples -- No money, no life : surviving on the streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland -- Embodying oppression : revolta amongst young people living on the streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler -- Children on the streets of Dhaka and their coping strategies / Alessandro Conticini -- Hindu nationalism and failing development goals : micro-finance, women and illegal livelihoods in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen -- Keeping it clean : discipline, control and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody -- Fast money in the margins : migrants in the sex industry / Laura Maria Agustin -- -- Begging questions : leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai / James Staples -- Vulnerable in the city : Adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah -- "Moving up and down looking for money" : making a living in a Ugandan refugee camp / Tania Kaiser -- "In-betweenness" on the margins : collective organisation, ethnicity and political agency among Bolivian street traders / Sian Lazar.Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners-they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood and notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. In Livelihood on the Margins, anthropologists and practitioners engaged in hands-on development work use fine-grained ethnographic research to cut through the conventional narratives that romanticize, victimize, or demonize these populations. They go beyond the trendy "sustainable livelihoods" approach to development to examine the relationship between the agency people can actually wield...Urban poorDeveloping countriesSociology, UrbanDeveloping countriesUrban poorSociology, Urban305.5/69091724Staples James1966-1143398MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808982003321Livelihoods at the margins3984599UNINA