Main entry:

Ferguson, James, 1959- author.

Title & Author:

Give a man a fish : reflections on the new politics of distribution / James Ferguson ; Foreward by Thomas Gibson.

Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
©2015

Description:

xv, 264 pages ; 24 cm

Series:

The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index.
Cash transfers and the new Welfare States: from Neoliberalism to the politics of distribution -- Give a man a fish: from patriarchal productionism to the revalorization of distribution -- What comes after the social? Historicizing the future of social protection in Africa -- Distributed livelihoods: dependence and the labor of distribution in the lives of the Southern African poor (and not-so-poor) -- The social life of cash payments: money, markets, and the mutualities of poverty -- Declarations of dependence: labor, personhood, and welfare in Southern Africa -- A rightful share: distribution beyond gift and market -- What next for distributive politics?
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa in which states give cash payments to their low income citizens. These programs, Ferguson argues, offer new opportunities for political mobilization and inspire new ways to think about issues of production, distribution, markets, labor and unemployment.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780822358954 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0822358956 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780822358862 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822358867 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822375524 (e-book)
0822375524 (e-book)

Subject:

Economic assistance, Domestic Africa.
Public welfare Africa.
Neoliberalism Africa.
Capitalism.
Poverty Africa.
Aide au développement économique régional Afrique.
Aide sociale Afrique.
Néo-libéralisme Afrique.
Pauvreté Afrique.
Southern Africa.
social welfare.
social security.
poverty reduction.
wealth.
economic policy.
Economic assistance, Domestic.
Economic policy.
Neoliberalism.
Poverty.
Public welfare.
Social policy.
Wohlfahrtsstaat
Sozialhilfe
Armut
Bekämpfung
Kapitalismus
Försörjningsstöd.
Socialtjänst.
Nyliberalism.
Fattigdom.
Economic assistance, Domestic Africa, Southern
Public welfare Africa, Southern
Neoliberalism Africa, Southern
Poverty Africa, Southern
Africa Economic policy.
Africa Social policy.
Afrique Politique économique.
Afrique Politique sociale.
Africa.
Südafrika

Added entries:

Gibson, Thomas, 1956- writer of foreword.
Lewis Henry Morgan lectures.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317806
Call No.: 317806
Status: Available