The Power of Labelling : How People are Categorized and Why It Matters (Paperback)

Introduction. Labelling, Power and Accountability: How and Why ?Our? Categories Matter * Labels, Welfare Regimes and Intermediation: Contesting Formal Power * Labelling People for Aid * The Politics of Representing ?the Poor? * Disjunctures in Labelling Refugees and Oustees * When Labels Stigmatize: Encounters with ?Street Children? and ?Restavecs? in Haiti * Poverty as a Spectator Sport * ?Muslim Women? and ?Moderate Muslims?: British Policy and the Strengthening of Religious Absolutist Control over Gender Development * Black Umbrellas: Labelling and Articulating Development in the Indonesian Mass Media * Labelling ?Works?: The Language and Politics of Caste and Tribe in India * Exploring the Intersection of Racial Labels, Rainbow Citizenship and Citizens? Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa * Afterword: Changing Practice * Index