City requiem, Calcutta gender and the politics of poverty
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...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Minneapolis ; London :
University of Minnesota Press
[2003]
|
| Colección: | Globalization and community ;
v. 10 |
| Materias: | |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991011507434908016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Opening Moves
- 2. The Politics of Poverty
- 3. Domestications
- 4. Dreaming of Tombstones
- 5. Disruptions
- Postscript(s)
- - Methodological Appendix: Research Strategies and Data Sources
