Give a man a fish : reflections on the new politics of distribution / James Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, James, 1959-2025.

Series:

Lewis Henry Morgan lectures.

The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance, Domestic--Africa.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

Public welfare--Africa.

Public welfare.

Neoliberalism--Africa.

Neoliberalism.

Capitalism.

Poverty--Africa.

Poverty.

Africa--Economic policy.

Africa.

Africa--Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>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.<BR></div>

Contents:

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?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822358862

0822358867

OCLC:

1150013811