Give a Man a Fish : Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
ISBN-10
0822358867
ISBN-13
9780822358862
Publisher
Duke University Press
Imprint
Duke University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 20th, 2015
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
422 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.40 x 1.60 cms
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James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa in which states give cash payments to their low income citizens. These programs, Ferguson argues, offer new opportunities for political mobilization and inspire new ways to think about issues of production, distribution, markets, labor and unemployment.
In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa''s population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death of the welfare state. These programs'' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass unemployment, Ferguson argues, provide an opportunity for rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of political mobilization. Interested in an emerging "politics of distribution," Ferguson shows how new demands for direct income payments (including so-called "basic income") require us to reexamine the relation between production and distribution, and to ask new questions about markets, livelihoods, labor, and the future of progressive politics.
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