Unruly Domestication - Kristin Skrabut

Unruly Domestication

Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

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Buch | Softcover
312 Seiten
2024
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2910-8 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.

Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru’s ongoing, internationally endorsed "war on poverty" shapes politics, intimate identities, and urban space in Lima. Drawing on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research in Lima’s largest and most recently founded “extreme poverty zone,” Kristin Skrabut demonstrates how Peru’s efforts to fight poverty by formalizing property, identity, and family status perpetuate environmentally unsustainable urban sprawl, deepen discrimination against single mothers, and undermine Peruvians’ faith in public officials and in one another. In the process, Skrabut reveals myriad entanglements of poverty, statecraft, and private life, exploring how families are made and unmade through political practices, how gender inequalities are perpetuated through policy, and how Peruvians’ everyday pursuits of state-sanctioned domestic ideals reproduce informality and landscapes of poverty in the urban periphery.

The only full-length ethnography written about Lima’s iconic and policy-inspiring shantytowns in thirty years, Unruly Domestication provides valuable insight into the dynamics of housing and urban development in the Global South, elucidating the most intimate and profound effects of global efforts to do good.

Kristin Skrabut is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor of urban and environmental policy at Tufts University.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introducing Extreme Lives
Part I. Concepts in Situ

Chapter 1. Poverty Productions: Measurement, Mediation, and Mistrust
Chapter 2. Ambivalent Developments: The Entanglements of Politics and Kinship


Part II. Materialities of Statecraft

Chapter 3. Papering the Margins
Chapter 4. State Identities


Part III. Intimate Expanses

Chapter 5. Domestic Ideals, Single Moms, and Elastic Relations
Chapter 6. Housing, Kinship, and Landscapes of Poverty


Conclusion: A Different Poverty Story
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Austin, TX
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 513 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4773-2910-2 / 1477329102
ISBN-13 978-1-4773-2910-8 / 9781477329108
Zustand Neuware
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