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Poverty knowledge in South Africa : a social history of human science, 1855-2005 / Grace Davie, Queens College, City University of New York.

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Poverty is South Africa's greatest challenge. But what is 'poverty'? And how can it be measured and addressed? In South Africa, human-science knowledge about the cost of living grew out of colonialism, industrialization, apartheid, and civil resistance campaigns, which makes this know...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Davie, Grace, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Poverty > South Africa.
Poverty > Government policy > South Africa.
Poverty > South Africa > Measurement.
Income maintenance programs > South Africa.
Income maintenance programs.
Poverty.
Poverty > Government policy.
Poverty > Measurement.
South Africa.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the poverty question in South Africa
  • Before poverty measurement : conjuring worlds without want
  • The human sciences in interwar South africa : William Macmillan, I.D. MacCrone, and the Carnegie Commission
  • The minimum standards moment : Edward Batson and the poverty datum line (PDL)
  • Rethinking governmentality : urban planning, rural betterment, and the apartheid state
  • Agitation through quantification : white student activists in the era of black consciousness
  • From people's power to corporate power : poverty research and the transition to democracy
  • Baselines and battle lines: social surveying after apartheid.

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