This work shows how the poor survive in Calcutta where over half the population live in slums. It argues that since the major cities in India are half slum already, policies should accept that the poor are a part of the urban population and help them in finding the solution to improve their lives.
Autorentext
Thomas, Frederic C.
Zusammenfassung
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.
Inhalt
Preface, Introduction, Impressions, Black Town and the City of Palaces, Bhadralok and the Genteel Poor, Refugees and Migrants, Slums and Squatters, Bustees from Within, Improving the Bustees, Caste and Occupational Niches, Providing Livelihoods, Mobilizing the Community, Slum Politics, The Intractability of Urban Poverty, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Titel
Calcutta Poor
Untertitel
Inquiry into the Intractability of Poverty
Autor
EAN
9781315479231
ISBN
978-1-315-47923-1
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
16.09.2016
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.17 MB
Anzahl Seiten
200
Jahr
2016
Untertitel
Englisch
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