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Caring Cash - Free Money and the Ethics of Solidarity in Kenya (Paperback)
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Caring Cash - Free Money and the Ethics of Solidarity in Kenya (Paperback)
Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society
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The idea of giving cash, no-strings-attached, to the poor has
become popular in the 21st century. While hardly a radical form of
global redistribution, these cash grants, often known as
unconditional cash transfers, claim to offer a new type of care
that is less paternalistic than other forms of assistance. Caring
Cash explores the caring practices that these grant experiments
produced in the Nairobi ghetto of Korogocho. After receiving the
grants, people there did not only look after themselves and their
family, friends, lovers, clients and patrons, but also maintained
the bonds that held them all together. Putting his interlocutors'
lives in conversation with ideas around care, ethics and economies,
Tom Neumark argues that for those in the ghetto, caring for
relationships is as important as the care that takes place within
relationships. Seeing care in this way reveals the importance of
managing one's proximity, distance and detachment to others, and
raises questions about the disquieting decisions that allow people
to live together amidst violence and poverty.
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