Faculty Book Talk: Unruly Domestication with Kristin Skrabut, 1/29

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The Center for the Humanities is excited to welcome Professor Kristin Skrabut to CHAT on January 29 to discuss her newest monograph, Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru. 

Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru's ongoing, internationally endorsed war on poverty shapes politics, intimate identities, and urban space in Lima.Drawing on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research in Lima’s largest and most recently founded “extreme poverty zone,” Kristin Skrabut demonstrates how Peru’s efforts to fight poverty by formalizing property, identity, and family status perpetuate environmentally unsustainable urban sprawl, deepen discrimination against single mothers, and undermine Peruvians’ faith in public officials and in one another.

All are welcome to attend. For questions, contact us at: humanities@tufts.edu.