Call for papers (closes 15 February 2016)
Panel Title: P072 Cash transfers and the 'rediscovery' of households
in the 21st century
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4102
14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures
Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and Department
of Sociology and Social Research at University of Milano-Bicocca
20-23 July, 2016
Short Abstract
This panel explores how cash transfer programs?their material
infrastructure, the assumptions they convey about families, and the
novel arrangements they enable - interact with local views on, and
practices of, households.
Long Abstract
In recent decades, cash transfers?conditional or unconditional?have
become probably the most popular development and anti-poverty measure
worldwide. They aim to increase human capital and empower the poor by
recognizing that people themselves are best placed to decide what they
need, while forging new links between states and their citizens. Yet
in order to qualify, citizens must occupy specific household and
life-cycle positions; others, such as single young men, are
ineligible. This panel explores how cash transfer programs?their
material infrastructure, the assumptions they convey about families,
and the novel arrangements they enable - interact with local views on,
and practices of, households. It asks, among other things, how these
schemes impact relationships between genders or generations; how cash
and labor are allocated within households; what role payments play in
the financialization of households; and how households use their
participation in these programs to alter their position within their
communities.
In the 1970s and 1980s, households became important analytically for
anthropologists trying to understand the processes through which
people were incorporated into national market economies. While this
focus has fallen somewhat out of fashion, 'household' (critically
redeployed) remains a useful for analyzing the ways in which social
relations of present-day capitalism are 'generated' (Bear et al.
2015). This is especially true of the new regime of distribution
centered on cash transfers (Ferguson 2015), which posits specific
forms of gendered familial relations as crucial conduits of
development and households as conversion points mediating between the
state, the market, and the community.
To propose a paper, please follow this link:
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/cfp.shtml
For further information or if you have any questions please do not
hesitate to email the two panel convenors:
Martin Fotta (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) [log in to unmask]
Maria Elisa Balen (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) [log in to unmask]
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Dr Martin Fotta
Institut für Ethnologie
Goethe Universität
Campus Westend, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
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https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/59260676/fotta
'Gypsy Economy', new from Berghahn,
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BrazzabeniGypsy
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