Full Description
This books aims to further develop theory and practice on people-centred development, in particular on the livelihood approach. It focuses on four contemporary thematic areas, where progress has been booked but also contestation is still apparent: power relations, power struggles and underlying structures; livelihood trajectories and livelihood pathways: house, home and homeland in the context of violence; and mobility and immobility.
Contemporary livelihood studies aim to contribute to the understanding of poor people's lives with the ambition to enhance their livelihoods. Nowadays livelihood studies work from an holistic perspective on how the poor organize their livelihoods, in order to understand their social exclusion and to contribute to interventions and policies that intend to countervail that.
Contributors are: Clare Collingwood Esland, Ine Cottyn, Jeanne de Bruijn, Leo de Haan, Charles do Rego, Benjamin Etzold, Urs Geiser, Jan Willem le Grand, Griet Steel, Paul van Lindert, Annelies Zoomers.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
From Poverty to Social Exclusion: A Livelihoods Introductory
Leo de Haan
Chapter 2
Understanding Poverty, Defining Interventions: Why Social Relations Need More Attention in Livelihoods Analyses and Why This Complicates Development Practice
Urs Geiser
Chapter 3
Mobility, Space and Livelihood Trajectories: New Perspectives on Migration, Translocality and Place-making for Livelihood Studies
Benjamin Etzold
Chapter 4
Social Inclusion and Sustainable Livelihood Trajectories of Portuguese Immigrants in Curaçao: From Contracted Oil-Workers through Agro-Commercial Entrepreneurship to Business Elite
Charles do Rego and Jeanne de Bruijn
Chapter 5
Two Decades of Livelihood Transformation and Community Pathways in the Bolivian Andes
Jan Willem le Grand and Annelies Zoomers
Chapter 6
Defending Homeland and Regaining Freedoms: Interpreting Livelihoods Among Conflict-Affected Communities in Southern Lebanon
Clare Collingwood Esland
Chapter 7
New Connections - New Dependencies: Spatial and Digital Flows in sub-Saharan African Livelihoods
Griet Steel, Ine Cottyn and Paul van Lindert
Chapter 8
Power and Pathways, Violent Conflict and Mobility: Empirical Findings and Conceptual Innovations in Livelihoods Studies
Leo de Haan
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