Grace Davie

Poverty Knowledge in South Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses unconventional ways of measuring and addressing poverty in South Africa, which remains one of the country's biggest challenges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781107551732
• ISBN-10: 1107551730
• Artikelnr.: 42789027

Autorenporträt

Grace Davie is Associate Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern African Studies, Waging Nonviolence, YES! magazine, and OD Practitioner.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Lay Knowledge Meets Human Science, 1855-1940: The Co-production of
the 'Poor White Problem': 1. Before poverty measurement: conjuring worlds
without want; 2. The human sciences in interwar South Africa: William
Macmillan, I. D. MacCrone, and the Carnegie Commission; Part II. The Limits
of Invention, 1940-70: Social Reform and Quantitative Objectivity: 3. The
minimum standards moment: Edward Batson and the Poverty Datum Line (PDL);
4. Rethinking governmentality: urban planning, rural betterment, and the
apartheid state; Part III. The People's Facts: Epistemic Mobility and the
Negotiated Settlement, 1970-2005: 5. Agitation through quantification:
white student activists in the era of black consciousness; 6. From people's
power to corporate power: poverty research and the transition to democracy;
7. Baselines and battle lines: social surveying after apartheid;
Conclusion; Epilogue.