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LSE Anthropology of Africa Seminar Series
February 20th, 4-6pm, Seligman Library, Old Building 6th floor, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
Jacinta Muinde, University of Cambridge - 'A share of my children: cash transfers, caregiving and kin relations at the Kenya South Coast'
Clara Devlieger, University of Cambridge - 'Begging and Sharing in Kinshasa'
Amidst growing enthusiasm for basic income and cash transfer programs as effective development strategies against poverty, James Ferguson's 'Give a man a fish' places African neoliberal-cum-welfare states in empirical and theoretical spotlight. A case is made for an emergent 'politics of distribution': a contemporary conjuncture that not only features states taking a more active role in development but also epitomizes a wider and socially embedded thinking according to which labour or production are not the 'rightful' basis for shares in a nation's wealth.
In this session, we counterpoise Ferguson's interrogation of the potentials and pitfalls of this particular moment with two ethnographic paper presentations that seek to explore the purchase of redistributive politics in lived realities. Join us for a conversation about the novel states and subjects at work in facilitating and claiming redistributions of wealth, about contesting visions of the generation and ownership of value, and the space for anthropology within this emergent conjuncture.
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