Livelihoods and development : new perspectives / edited by by Leo de Haan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haan, Leo de, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor--Social conditions.

Poor.

Physical Description:

xiii, 201 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"This books aims to further develop theory and practice on people-centred development, in particular on the livelihood approach. It focuses on four contemporary thematic areas, where progress has been booked but also contestation is still apparent: power relations, power struggles and underlying structures; livelihood trajectories and livelihood pathways: house, home and homeland in the context of violence; and mobility and immobility. Contemporary livelihood studies aim to contribute to the understanding of poor people's lives with the ambition to enhance their livelihoods. Nowadays livelihood studies work from an holistic perspective on how the poor organize their livelihoods, in order to understand their social exclusion and to contribute to interventions and policies that intend to countervail that." --back cover.

Contents:

From poverty to social exclusion: a livelihoods introductory / Leo de Haan

Understanding poverty, defining interventions: why social relations need more attention in livelihoods analyses and why this complicated development practice / Urs Geiser

Mobility, space and livelihood trajectories: new perspectives on migration, translocality and place-making for livelihood studies / Benjamin Etzold

Social inclusion and sustainable livelihood trajectories of Portuguese immigrants in Curaçao: from contracted oil workers through agro-commercial entrepreneurship to business elite / Charles do Rego and Jeanne de Bruijn

Two decades of livelihood transformation and community pathways in the Bolivian Andes / Jan Willem le Grand and Annelies Zoomers

Defending homeland and regaining freedoms: interpreting livelihoods among conflict-affected communities in Southern Lebanon / Clare Collingwood Esland

New connections - new dependencies: spatial and digital flows in sub-Saharan African livelihoods / Griet Steel, Ine Cottyn and Paul van Lindert

Power and pathways, violent conflict and mobility: empirical findings and conceptual innovations in livelihoods studies / Leo de Haan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004342255

9004342257

OCLC:

978286938