Poverty Knowledge in South Africa - A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005

Informationen zum Autor Grace Davie is Associate Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern African Studies, Waging Nonviolence, YES! magazine, and OD Practitioner. Klappentext This book discusses unconventional ways of measuring and addressing poverty in South Africa, which remains one of the country's biggest challenges. Zusammenfassung Poverty is South Africa's greatest challenge. But what is 'poverty'? And how can it be measured and addressed? Davie argues that poverty knowledge teaches us about the dynamics of historical change! the power of racial thinking in white settler societies! and the role of ordinary people in shaping state policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Lay Knowledge Meets Human Science, 1855-1940: The Co-production of the 'Poor White Problem': 1. Before poverty measurement: conjuring worlds without want; 2. The human sciences in interwar South Africa: William Macmillan, I. D. MacCrone, and the Carnegie Commission; Part II. The Limits of Invention, 1940-70: Social Reform and Quantitative Objectivity: 3. The minimum standards moment: Edward Batson and the Poverty Datum Line (PDL); 4. Rethinking governmentality: urban planning, rural betterment, and the apartheid state; Part III. The People's Facts: Epistemic Mobility and the Negotiated Settlement, 1970-2005: 5. Agitation through quantification: white student activists in the era of black consciousness; 6. From people's power to corporate power: poverty research and the transition to democracy; 7. Baselines and battle lines: social surveying after apartheid; Conclusion; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Grace Davie, Prof. Grace Davie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2015
• EAN: 9781107551732
• ISBN: 978-1-107-55173-2
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: theory & methods, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Africa / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Republic of South Africa, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, Social and cultural history, African History, Poverty and precarity