The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South

✍ Scribed by Mariano Féliz and Aaron Louis Rosenberg

• Publisher: Ibidem Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: CROP International Poverty Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contributes to the debates on the production and eradication of poverty in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been addressed by popular movements and the governments of various states across the globe. Providing new insights into the limitations of traditional strategies to confront poverty, it highlights how social organizations are working to transform the livelihoods of people through bottom-up struggle and more participatory approaches rather than passively waiting for top-down solutions.

About the Author

Mariano Féliz is a researcher at the CIG-IdIHCS/CONICET-UNLP of Argentina and professor of economics at the National University of La Plata.

Aaron Louis Rosenberg is associate professor at the Centro de Estudios de Asia y África at El Colegio de México, where he teaches African literature and oversees the Swahili language program.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 8
NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 16
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
Chapter 1 THE MAKING AND REMAKING OF HUMAN RIGHTS: CONTEMPORARY LIMITS AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS TO THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH......Page 26
Chapter 2 “I’M GONNA GET MY SHARE OF WHAT’S MINE”: NARRATIVES OF POVERTY AND CRIME IN POSTCOLONIAL JAMAICA AND KENYA......Page 52
Chapter 3 CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR COMBATING POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA?......Page 76
Chapter 4 NEODEVELOPMENTALISM IN ARGENTINA: ITS CONTRADICTIONS, BARRIERS, AND LIMITS TO POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE......Page 102
Chapter 5 ALTERNATIVE PATHS OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN SUBSAHARIAN AFRICA: A CASE FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS BY THE POOR......Page 134
Chapter 6 SCOPE AND USEFULNESS OF “RIGHT TO INFORMATION” AS ANTI-POVERTY TOOL: THE BANGLADESH EXPERIENCE......Page 156
Chapter 7 PERI-URBAN DWELLING AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA......Page 182
Chapter 8 ANALYSIS OF WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS AS DRIVERS OF GENDERED SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: EXPERIENCES FROM ZIMBABWE......Page 206
Chapter 9 CIVIL SOCIETY MOVEMENTS AND RIGHTS DISCOURSE IN POSTAPARTHEID SOCIOECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION......Page 230
CONCLUSION......Page 268