Poverty in Common

The Politics of Community Action during the American Century

Автор: Alyosha Goldstein

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In post-World War II America, the idea that local community action was indispensable for the allevia...

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Автор

Alyosha Goldstein

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2012

страници

392

EAN

9780822351672

ISBN

0822351676

Enbook ID

04939487

Издател

Duke University Press

Теглоt

666

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In post-World War II America, the idea that local community action was indispensable for the alleviation of poverty was broadly embraced by policymakers, social scientists, international development specialists, and grassroots activists. Governmental efforts to mobilize community action in the name of democracy served as a volatile condition of possibility through which poor people and dispossessed groups negotiated the tension between calls for self-help and demands for self-determination in the context of the Cold War and global decolonization. Poverty in Common suggests new ways to think about the relationship between liberalism, government, and inequality with implications for popular debates over the "end of welfare" and neo-liberalism in the United States. Drawing on oral histories, program records, community newspapers, policy documents, and records of public hearings, Alyosha Goldstein analyzes a compelling but often overlooked series of historical episodes: Progressive era reform as a precursor to community development during the Cold War; how the language of "underdevelopment" articulated ideas about poverty and foreignness; the use of poverty as a crucible of interest group politics; and how radical groups critically reframed the question of community action in anti-colonial terms. He shows how approaches to poverty were linked to the racialised and gendered negotiation of boundaries - between foreign and domestic, empire and nation, violence and order, dependency and autonomy - in the mid-twentieth-century United States.

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