Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 201 pages)
,
color illustrations
ISBN:
9789004347182
Content:
"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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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From poverty to social exclusion: a livelihoods introductory
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Understanding poverty, defining interventions: why social relations need more attention in livelihoods analyses and why this complicated development practice
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Mobility, space and livelihood trajectories: new perspectives on migration, translocality and place-making for livelihood studies
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Social inclusion and sustainable livelihood trajectories of Portuguese immigrants in Curaçao: from contracted oil workers through agro-commercial entrepreneurship to business elite
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Two decades of livelihood transformation and community pathways in the Bolivian Andes
,
Defending homeland and regaining freedoms: interpreting livelihoods among conflict-affected communities in Southern Lebanon
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New connections - new dependencies: spatial and digital flows in sub-Saharan African livelihoods
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Power and pathways, violent conflict and mobility: empirical findings and conceptual innovations in livelihoods studies
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004342257
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004342255
Additional Edition:
Print version Livelihoods and development Boston : Brill Academic, 2017
Language:
English
Keywords:
Lebensunterhalt
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Soziale Situation
;
Armut
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1163/9789004347182
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