The Political Economy of Poverty, Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Management ― Building Bridges of Resilience, Entrepreneurshi

Contributors from the humanities and social sciences interrogate the politics, controversies, and events that stymie and constrain the efforts of poverty and vulnerability professionals to reduce poverty and vulnerability. More crucially, they seek ways to reduce poverty and vulnerability among the poor African communities, especially in places with high hazard exposure and extreme poverty levels. Among their topics are poverty and the discourses about the Global North's playing of the Global South, breaking the cycle of poverty: rethinking Africa's socio-political economy, ethnographic monitoring through phone-in radio programs; an example from Ankore in Uganda, the impoverished African and the poverty of colonially inherited education in Africa, and seeing beyond national borders: impoverished visually-impaired Zimbabwean beggars in South Africa's Johannesburg. Distributed in North America by the African Books Collective. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)