Livelihoods at the margins
Subtitle: surviving the city
By: James Staples, editor.
Contributors: Staples, James, 1966-
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781598742725; 9781598742732
Subjects: Urban poor -- Developing countries; Sociology, Urban -- Developing countries
Description: Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners - they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. This volume cuts through the conventional narratives that romanticize, victimize, or demonize these populations.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : livelihoods at the margins / James Staples; title: No money, no life : surviving on the streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland; title: Embodying oppression : revolta amongst young people living on the streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler; title: Children on the streets of Dhaka and their coping strategies / Alessandro Conticini; title: Hindu nationalism and failing development goals : micro-finance, women and illegal livelihoods in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen; title: Keeping it clean : discipline, control and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody; title: Fast money in the margins : migrants in the sex industry / Laura María Agustín; title: Begging questions : leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai / James Staples; title: Vulnerable in the city : Adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah; title: "Moving up and down looking for money" : making a living in a Ugandan refugee camp / Tania Kaiser; title: "In-betweenness" on the margins : collective organisation, ethnicity and political agency among Bolivian street traders / Sian Lazar.