Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)

Ferguson, James

ISBN 10: 0822358867 / ISBN 13: 9780822358862

Editore: Duke University Press, 2015

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Riassunto:

In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death of the welfare state. These programs' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass unemployment, Ferguson argues, provide an opportunity for rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of political mobilization. Interested in an emerging "politics of distribution," Ferguson shows how new demands for direct income payments (including so-called "basic income") require us to reexamine the relation between production and distribution, and to ask new questions about markets, livelihoods, labor, and the future of progressive politics.

Informazioni sull?autore:

James Ferguson is Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order and the coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both also published by Duke University Press.

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Titolo: Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New ...
Casa editrice: Duke University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good