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Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives
Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004
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Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives
Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004
About this book
Fifty years after Oscar Lewis's famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a ""culture of poverty,"" Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil. In Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives, Moser shows how a more sophisticated understanding of the complexities of asset accumulation as well as poverty itself can help counter inaccurate stereotypes about global poverty. It provides invaluable insight into strategies that may help people in developing countries improve their wellbeing.
The similar socioeconomic characteristics and economic circumstances of the Guayaquil families in 1978, when Moser began her research, set the stage for a natural experiment. By 2004, these circumstances varied widely. Moser captures the causes and consequences of these developments through economic data, anthropological narrative, and personal photos. She then places this compelling story within the broader context of political, economic, and spatial changes in Guayaquil and Ecuador.
Moser describes how households in a Third World urban slum relentlessly and systematically fought to accumulate human, social, and financial capital assets. Her longitudinal account of their odyssey captures long-term trends and changes in perception that are missed in snapshot assessments. Chapters in this holistic story cover diverse issues such as housing and infrastructure, community mobilization and political negotiation, employment, family dynamics, violence, and emigration.
The similar socioeconomic characteristics and economic circumstances of the Guayaquil families in 1978, when Moser began her research, set the stage for a natural experiment. By 2004, these circumstances varied widely. Moser captures the causes and consequences of these developments through economic data, anthropological narrative, and personal photos. She then places this compelling story within the broader context of political, economic, and spatial changes in Guayaquil and Ecuador.
Moser describes how households in a Third World urban slum relentlessly and systematically fought to accumulate human, social, and financial capital assets. Her longitudinal account of their odyssey captures long-term trends and changes in perception that are missed in snapshot assessments. Chapters in this holistic story cover diverse issues such as housing and infrastructure, community mobilization and political negotiation, employment, family dynamics, violence, and emigration.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Copyright Information
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction to Indio Guayas and the Study
- Grappling with Poverty: From Asset Vulnerability to Asset Accumulation
- A Home of One's Own: Squatter Housing as a Physical Asset
- Social Capital, Gender, and the Politics of Physical Infrastructure
- Leadership, Empowerment, and "Community Participation" in Negotiating for Social Services
- Earning a Living or Getting By: Labor as an Asset
- Families and Household Social Capital: Reducing Vulnerability and Accumulating Assets
- The Impact of Intrahousehold Dynamics on Asset Vulnerability and Accumulation
- Daughters and Sons: Intergenerational Asset Accumulation
- Migration to Barcelona and Transnational Asset Accumulation
- Youth Crime, Gangs, and Violent Death: Community Responses to Insecurity
- Research and Policy Lessons from Indio Guayas
- Appendix A: Research Methodology: Guayaquil Fieldwork
- Appendix B: Guayaquil's Political and Economic Context
- Appendix C: Econometric Methodology
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover