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This book recounts two years of living with a group of hijras in rural India. In this riveting ethnography, Vaibhav Saria reveals not just a group of stigmatized or marginalized others but a way of life composed of laughter, struggles, and desires that trouble how we read queerness, kinship, and the psyche.

Rural poor. --- Rural poor --- E-books

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At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban "underclass." Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic imagery were exported to the United Kingdom and continental Europe and agitated the international study of exclusion in the postindustrial metropolis. In this punchy book, Loïc Wacquant retraces the invention and metamorphoses of this racialized folk devil, from the structural conception of Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal to the behavioral notion of Washington think-tank experts to the neo-ecological formulation of sociologist William Julius Wilson. He uncovers the springs of the sudden irruption, accelerated circulation, and abrupt evaporation of the "underclass" from public debate, and reflects on the implications for the social epistemology of urban marginality. What accounts for the "lemming effect" that drew a generation of scholars of race and poverty over a scientific cliff? What are the conditions for the formation and bursting of "conceptual speculative bubbles"? What is the role of think tanks, journalism, and politics in imposing "turnkey problematics" upon social researchers? What are the special quandaries posed by the naming of dispossessed and dishonored populations in scientific discourse and how can we reformulate the explosive question of "race" to avoid these troubles? Answering these questions constitutes an exacting exercise in epistemic reflexivity in the tradition of Bachelard, Canguilhem and Bourdieu, and it issues in a clarion call for social scientists to defend their intellectual autonomy against the encroachments of outside powers, be they state officials, the media, think tanks, or philanthropic organizations. Compact, meticulous and forcefully argued, this study in the politics of social science knowledge will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, urban studies, ethnic studies, geography, intellectual history, the philosophy of science and public policy.

Marginality, Social --- Pauvres en milieu urbain --- Poor Black people --- Poor. --- Poverty. --- Urban poor --- Urban poor. --- Conditions sociales --- Social conditions

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Rural poor --- Rural development --- Government policy

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Ce dernier recueil inédit en français de Dorothy Allison nous permet de replonger avec délectation dans son style incandescent et empli de douceur, et dans cette manière si singulière et touchante de nommer les choses et de raconter des histoires « trash ». Ces récits, écrits pour la plupart dans les années 1980, ont été rassemblés par l’autrice elle-même. On y trouve en germe toutes les thématiques que la romancière lesbienne et issue du prolétariat white trash du Sud des États-Unis a traitées dans son œuvre : la misère sociale, les relations avec les femmes de sa famille, la violence de son beau-père, la sexualité, le rapport à la nourriture, la maladie de sa mère… Des histoires tour à tour jubilatoires et bouleversantes qui nous touchent en plein cœur.

Working class women --- Poor women --- Lesbians

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Women --- Self-employed women --- Poor women --- Women's rights --- Working poor --- Human rights --- Social conditions --- Employment