Poverty in common
Subtitle: the politics of community action during the American century
By: Alyosha Goldstein
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780822351672; 9780822351818
Subjects: Government policy; Community Action Program (U.S.); Community development; Economic conditions; Public welfare; Social service; Domestic Economic assistance; Poverty; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Now, were our own government?; title: Freedom between: inequality and the democracy of felt needs; title: On the internal border: colonial difference and the locations of underdevelopment; title: The civics and civilities of poverty: participation, policing, and the poor peoples campaign; title: The surplus of inclusion: poverty, pluralism, and the politics of community; title: Thresholds of opposition: liberty, liberation, and the horizon of incrimination; title: Conclusion : peculiar freedom: community and poverty, from new Federalism to Neoliberalism.