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Calcutta Poor

Frederic C. Thomas
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Author : Frederic C. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315479231

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Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation. In this illuminating critique, Thomas investigates the standard solutions - improved housing, increased job creation, and intervention of social services agencies - only to come to the conclusion that such initiatives have little effect on the inherent nature of the problem of poverty. Based on historical and anthropological findings, and the author's visits to the slums of Calcutta, what becomes clear is that even in the midst of great poverty, there is a nobility of character, a vitality of ethnic and cultural ties, and an energy that bring out inventiveness and ingenuity in the lives of the poor. If Calcutta's poverty is not to be an intractable problem, these internal forces must be awakened to generate solutions. Illustrated with stunning photographs, Thomas's reflections provide new insight into an age-old problem.

City Requiem, Calcutta

Ananya Roy
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Author : Ananya Roy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816639337

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Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism for the new millennium -- where, at a moment of liberalization, the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced. An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Roy's book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty. City Requiem, Calcutta emphasizes how gender itself is spatialized, and how gender relations are negotiated within the geopolitics of modernity and through the everyday practices of territory. Thus Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. In doing so, her work expands the field of poverty studies by showing how a politics of poverty is also a poverty of knowledge, a construction and management of social and spatial categories.

Membership Based Organizations of the Poor

Martha Chen,Renana Jhabvala,Ravi Kanbur,Carol Richards
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Author : Martha Chen,Renana Jhabvala,Ravi Kanbur,Carol Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135985684

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This highly topical volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor. Analyzing their success and failure and the internal and external factors that play a part, it uses studies from both developed and developing countries. Put together by a group of prestigious editors, the contributors address a range of questions, including: What structures and activities characterize MBOPs? What is meant by success and what factors account for success? What are the internal (governance structure and leadership) and external (policy environment) factors that account for success? Are these factors replicable across countries or even within countries? What are the constraints to successful MBOPs expanding, or to new ones being formed? What sort of policy environment enables the success of MBOPs and the formation of successful MBOPs? What types of institutional reforms are needed to ensure the representation of the poor through their own MBOs? This is an insightful work, that will be invaluable for students and researchers studying or working in the areas of international and development economics and development studies.

Calcutta Poor

Frederic C. Thomas
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Author : Frederic C. Thomas
Publisher : M E Sharpe Incorporated
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1563249804

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Calcutta Poor by Frederic C. Thomas Pdf

Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation. In this illuminating critique, Thomas investigates the standard solutions - improved housing, increased job creation, and intervention of social services agencies - only to come to the conclusion that such initiatives have little effect on the inherent nature of the problem of poverty. Based on historical and anthropological findings, and the author's visits to the slums of Calcutta, what becomes clear is that even in the midst of great poverty, there is a nobility of character, a vitality of ethnic and cultural ties, and an energy that bring out inventiveness and ingenuity in the lives of the poor. If Calcutta's poverty is not to be an intractable problem, these internal forces must be awakened to generate solutions. Illustrated with stunning photographs, Thomas's reflections provide new insight into an age-old problem.

Poor Relations

Christopher J. Hawes
Poor Relations Book PDF

Author : Christopher J. Hawes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136789809

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The sixty years between 1773 and 1833 determined British paramountcy in India. Those years were formative too for British Eurasians. By the 1820s Eurasians were an identifiable and vocal community of significant numbers particularly in the main Presidency towns. They were valuable to the administration of government although barred in the main from higher office. The ambition of their educated elite was to be accepted as British subjects, not to be treated as native Indians, an ambition which was finally rejected in the 1830s.

American Theological Inquiry, Volume One, Issue One

Gannon Murphy
American Theological Inquiry Volume One Issue One Book PDF

Author : Gannon Murphy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556357831

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American Theological Inquiry, Volume One, Issue One by Gannon Murphy Pdf

American Theological Inquiry (ATI) was formed in 2007 by Drs. S. Gannon Murphy (PhD, St. David's College, Univ. Wales, Theology; Presbyterian/Reformed) and Stephen Patrick (PhD, Univ. Illinois, Philosophy; Eastern Orthodox) to open up space for diverse Christian academicians, who affirm the Ecumenical Creeds, to share research throughout the broader Christian scholarly community in America. ATI reaches thousands of Christian scholars throughout the United States, particularly specialists in theology. Though ATI is a new journal, scholars who publish with ATI benefit from exposure to a vast, non-insular network of one of the broadest Christian academic communities possible.

The Geography of Bliss

Eric Weiner
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Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780446511070

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Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

An Unquenchable Thirst

Mary Johnson
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Author : Mary Johnson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588369864

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS “A candid, generous, and profound spiritual memoir that deserves a great deal of thoughtful discussion.”—Anne Rice At seventeen, Mary Johnson experienced her calling when she saw a photo of Mother Teresa on the cover of Time magazine; eighteen months later she began her training as a Missionary of Charity, a nun in Mother Teresa’s order. Not without difficulty, this boisterous, independent-minded teenager eventually adapted to the sisters’ austere life of poverty and devotion, but beneath the white-and-blue sari beat the heart of an ordinary young woman who faced daily the simple and profound struggles we all share, the same desires for love and connection. Eventually, after twenty years of service, Johnson left the church to find her own path, but her magnificently told story holds universal truths about the mysteries of faith and how a woman discovers herself. Includes new material: Two reading group guides—for groups that wish to take different approaches to the book; a conversation between Mary Johnson and Mira Bartók, author of The Memory Palace; and Mary Johnson’s recommended reading list. “A wonderful achievement . . . Johnson opens the window on a horizon of spiritual questions [and] takes an unflinching look inside her own heart.”—The Christian Science Monitor “An incredible coming-of-age story . . . [It] has everything a memoir needs: an inside look at a way of life that most of us will never see, a physical and emotional journey, and suspense.”—Slate “Reads like a novel . . . an exacting account of a woman growing into her own soul.”—More magazine “Engaging, heartfelt and entertaining . . . [Johnson] articulates her struggles with her God in words that will hit home.”—Los Angeles Times “An inspiration that transcends any particular religious belief . . . An Unquenchable Thirst is a journey that captivates, but its resonance lies in the life examined.”—The Denver Post

Finding Calcutta

Mary Poplin
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Author : Mary Poplin
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830868483

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Mary Poplin's chronicle of her volunteer work with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta provides an inside glimpse into Mother Teresa's life of service to the poor. Transformed by the experience, Poplin discovered how all of us can find our own places of meaningful work and service.

The Law Times Reports

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : IOWA:31858016869947

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Judgments of the Privy Council on Appeals from India, from 1831-1880

Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee,David Sutherland
Judgments of the Privy Council on Appeals from India from 1831 1880 Book PDF

Author : Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee,David Sutherland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112105143418

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