Section 1: Programs of government -- What kind of problem is poverty? The archeology of an idea / Michael B. Katz -- Representation: An archeology of poverty for the present / Luis Flores Jr. -- Is poverty a global security threat? / Akhil Gupta -- Paying for good behavior: Cash transfer policies in the wild / Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore -- Data-mining for development? Poverty, payment, and platform / Bill Maurer -- Representation: Fast policy in a mobile world / Christina Gossman -- Section 2: The ethics of encounter -- DIsaster markets and the poverty factory / Vincanne Adams -- Representation: The privatization of everything? / Rebecca Peters -- Our past, your future: Evangelical missionaries and the script of prosperity / Ju Hui Judy Han -- Representation: Moving beyond the geography of privilege / Anh-Thi Le -- The duration of inequality: Limits, liability, and the historical specificity of poverty / Alyosha Goldstein -- Funding the other California: An anatomy of consensus and consent / Erica Kohl-Arenas -- Section 3: Geographies of penality and risk -- Class, ethnicity, and state in the making of marginality: Revisiting territories of urban relegation / Loïc Wacquant -- Representation: Poverty action in neighborhoods of relegation / Stephanie Ullrich -- From poor peripheries to sectarian frontiers: Planning, development, and the spatial production of sectarianism in Beirut / Hiba Bou Akar -- Gray areas: The war on poverty at home and abroad / Ananya Roy, Stuart Schrader, and Emma Shaw Crane -- Spatializing citizenship and the informal public / Teddy Cruz -- Representation: The bridge between design and poverty action / Somaya Abdelgany -- Conclusion: Theory should ride a bus / Emma Shaw Crane.