New Books: Unruly Domestication

18/09/2025 29 min Temporada 4 Episodio 8
New Books: Unruly Domestication

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Join us for our conversation with Dr. Kristin Skrabut, author of Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru, published in 2024 by the University of Texas Press. Unruly Domestication explores how Peru's "war on poverty" took shape in the city of Lima through extensive ethnographic research to better understand how the politics of poverty, statecraft, and family structure become entangled.Guest Kristin Skrabut, Assistant Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, Tufts UniversityGet the book! Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru by Kristin Skrabut, University of Texas Press, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.