Cash Transfers in Context

An Anthropological Perspective

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Emmanuelle Piccoli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

342 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-917-8 (ISBN)

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Marginal in status a decade ago, cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low- and middle-income countries. While these programs have had positive effects, they are typical of top-down development interventions in that they impose on local contexts standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery. This book sheds light on the crucial importance of these contexts and the many unpredicted consequences of cash transfer programs worldwide - detailing how the latter are used by actors to pursue their own strategies, and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations.

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan is Professor of Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (both in France). He is also based at LASDEL, Niger. He has written numerous books in French and in English and is currently working on an empirical anthropology of public actions and modes of governance in West Africa.

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Cash Transfers and the Revenge of Contexts: An Introduction

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Emmanuelle Piccoli

Chapter 1. Miracle Mechanisms, Travelling Models, and the Revenge of the Contexts:  Cash Transfer Programmes; A Textbook Case

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

Chapter 2. Realizing Cash Transfer Programs through Collective Obligations: An Ethnography of Co-responsibility in Mexico

Alejandro Agudo Sanchíz

Chapter 3. Types of Permanence: Conditional Cash, Economic Difference, and Gender Practice in Northeastern Brazil

Gregory Duff Morton

Chapter 4. Queuing in the Sun: The Salience of Implementation Practices in Recipients’ Experience of a Conditional Cash Transfer

Maria Elisa Balen

Chapter 5. Conditional Cash Transfer Program Implementation and Effects in Peruvian Indigenous Contexts

Norma Correa Aste, Terry Roopnaraine and Amy Margolies

Chapter 6. Making Good Mothers: Conditions, Coercion, and Local Reactions in the Juntos Program in Peru

Emmanuelle Piccoli and Bronwen Gillespie

Chapter 7. Expectations beyond Development: Towards a Prospective Chronology of Cash Transfers from Mexico to Argentina

Andrés Dapuez and Sabrina Gavigan

Chapter 8. Conditional Cash Transfer and Gender, Class, and Ethnic Domination: The Case of Bolivia

Nora Nagels

Chapter 9. Behind the Official Story: The Unintended Effects of Social Transfer Programmes in Conflict-Affected Contexts

Fiona Samuels and Nicola Jones

Chapter 10. Are Cash Transfers Rocking or Wrecking the World of Social Workers in Egypt?

Hania Sholkamy

Chapter 11. Juggling between Social Obligations and Personal Benefit in Western Côte d’Ivoire: How Do Ex-combatants Spend their Cash Allowance?

Magali Chelpi-den Hamer

Chapter 12. Cash Transfers in Rural Niger: Social Targeting as a Conflict of Norms

Jean Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Oumarou Hamani

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Erscheinungsdatum	19.04.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-80073-917-6 / 1800739176
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-917-8 / 9781800739178
Zustand	Neuware