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The Government of Chronic Poverty - From the politics of exclusion to the politics of citizenship? (Paperback)
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The Government of Chronic Poverty - From the politics of exclusion to the politics of citizenship? (Paperback)
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What are the underlying causes of chronic poverty? Can 'development
beyond neoliberalism' offer the strategies required to challenge
such persistent forms of poverty, particularly through efforts to
promote citizenship amongst poor people? Drawing on case-study
evidence from Africa, Latin America and South Asia, the
contributions critically examine different attempts to 'govern'
chronic poverty via the promotion of particular forms and notions
of citizenship, with a specific focus on the role of
community-based approaches, social policy and social movements.
Poverty is seen here as deriving from underlying patterns of uneven
development, involving processes of capitalism and state formation
that foster inequality-generating mechanisms and particularly
disadvantaged social categories. Sceptics tend to deride the
emphasis under current 'inclusive' forms of Liberalism on tackling
poverty through the promotion of citizenship as inevitably
depoliticising and disempowering for poor people, and our cases do
suggest that citizenship-based strategies rarely alter the
underlying basis of poverty. However, our evidence also offers some
support to those optimists who suggest that progressive moves
towards poverty reduction and citizenship formation have become
more rather than less likely at the current juncture. The promotion
of citizenship emerges here as a significant but incomplete effort
to challenge poverty that persists over time. This book was
published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.
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