Poverty Knowledge in South Africa : a social history of human science, 1855-2005 /
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| Author / Creator: | Davie, Grace, 1974- author. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10133450 |
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.