Exhausting, but worth it : Advocacy for homelessness continues after RI allocates funds
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Exhausting, but worth it : Advocacy for housing justice continues after RI allocates funds
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Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru s southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means and importantly how it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise that Peru is wealthy. He situates his work in a network of villages near new mining sites, agricultural export markets, and tourist attractions, where Peruvian prosperity appears tantalizingly close, yet just out of reach.
This book centers on small-scale development investments working to transform villagers into indigenous entrepreneurs ready to capitalize on Peru s new national brand and access the constantly deferred promise of national growth. That meant identifying as indigenous, where few actively did so; identifying as an entrepreneur, in a place where single-minded devotion to a business wen