Materializing poverty : how the poor transform their lives / Erin B. Taylor.

Author: Taylor, Erin B.

Imprint:Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2013]

Descriptionxi, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction: the wealth of poverty -- More than artifacts: the materiality of poverty -- Building futures: squatting as an enabling constraint -- Too big to ignore: the state and the persistence of squatting -- "Crisis is coming": material manifestations of immaterial ends -- Moving places: barrios as barometers of national progress -- Flexible identities: negotiating values through material forms.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and index.

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