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

• Autore: Grech Shaun
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2015.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.4097281
• Soggetto topico: Economic development; Economic policy; Sociology; Poverty; Development economics; Development Studies; Development Policy; Sociology, general; Development Aid; Development Economics
• Soggetto geografico: Guatemala Social conditions; Guatemala Economic conditions
• Classificazione: BUS068000SOC042000SOC045000
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Disability and Poverty in the Global South
• ISBN: 1-137-30798-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820099303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development