The neoliberal state and the depoliticization of poverty: Activist anthropology and "ethnography from below"

Urban Anthropology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 175-204

  Lyon Callo, Vincent ^a   Hyatt, Susan Brin ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; NEOLIBERALISM; POVERTY; WELFARE PROVISION;

EID: 0345415539     PISSN: 08946019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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