Description: These essays challenge the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized and confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people's movements, and global networks of poverty expertise.
Brief description: ANANYA ROY is a professor of urban planning and social welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles where she also holds The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy and serves as inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin.
Review Quotes: Most noteworthy in the Territories of Poverty project is the incorporation of detailed local ethnographies in a global context displaying the bewildering variety of capitalism's many faces, be it in post-Katrina disaster relief, city planning in war-torn Beirut, securitizing of debt through microfinance in Bangladesh, or Korean evangelizing in East Africa. This is the biggest strength of the book, making it a must read in any graduate seminar on poverty.--Lakshman Yapa "Economic Geography"