Table of Contents
Preface: Why Territories of Poverty Now? Ananya Roy Emma Shaw Crane ix
Introduction: The Aporias of Poverty Ananya Roy 1
Section 1 Programs of Government
What Kind of Problem Is Poverty? The Archeology of an Idea Michael B. Katz 39
Representation: An Archeology of Poverty for the Present Luis Flores JR. 79
Is Poverty a Global Security Threat? Akhil Gupta 84
Paying for Good Behavior: Cash Transfer Policies in the Wild Jamie Peck Nik Theodore 103
Data-Mining for Development? Poverty, Payment, and Platform Bill Maurer 126
Representation: Fast Policy in a Mobile World Christina Gossmann 144
Section 2 The Ethics of Encounter
Disaster Markets and the Poverty Factory Vincanne Adams 151
Representation: The Privatization of Everything? Rebecca Peters 173
Our Past, Your Future: Evangelical Missionaries and the Script of Prosperity Ju Hui Judy Han 176
Representation: Moving Beyond the Geography of Privilege Anh-Thi Le 195
The Duration of Inequality: Limits, Liability, and the Historical Specificity of Poverty Alyosha Goldstein 198
Funding the Other California: An Anatomy of Consensus and Consent Erica Kohl-Arenas 225
Section 3 Geographies of Penality and Risk
Class, Ethnicity, and State in the Making of Marginality: Revisiting Territories of Urban Relegation Loïc Wacquant 247
Representation: Poverty Action in Neighborhoods of Relegation Stephanie Ullrich 260
From Poor Peripheries to Sectarian Frontiers: Planning, Development, and the Spatial Production of Sectarianism in Beirut Hiba Bou Akar 264
Gray Areas: The War on Poverty at Home and Abroad Ananya Roy Stuart Schrader Emma Shaw Crane 289
Spatializing Citizenship and the Informal Public Teddy Cruz 315
Representation: The Bridge between Design and Poverty Action Somaya Abdelgany 340
Conclusion: Theory Should Ride the Bus Emma Shaw Crane 344
Contributors 355
Index 363