Rethinking Poverty in Re/Development Thinking: Anthropological Perspectives

Rethinking Poverty in Re/Development Thinking: Anthropological Perspectives, Part I 

 

CHAIR: ILAHIANE, Hsain (U Kentucky) 

DISCUSSANTS: PARK, Thomas K. (U Arizona) Capability Theory and Refugees in the Sahel and North Africa; 

LYON, Sarah (U Kentucky) Fair Trade and the Marketization of Poverty; 

UDVARDY, Monica (UKY) Stealing the Imaginary Means of Production: Poverty and the Trafficking in Ancestral Memorial Statues in Kenya; 

COMPION, Sara (U Kentucky) Poverty Volunteering in South Africa.

 

ABSTRACT: 

ILAHIANE, Hsain (U Kentucky) Rethinking Poverty in Re/Development Thinking: Anthropological Perspectives, Parts I-II. Poverty is a social construct specifying prescribed modes in which scholars and practitioners frame the concept of poverty, the ways of measuring it, and the modalities of alleviating it.  This panel will critique the economic and capabilistic approaches to poverty by providing anthropological perspectives that focus on providing a historical and social context for understanding poverty as a social and institutional relationship.  Ethnographically grounded perspectives from (re) development contexts in the north and in the globalizing south will critique the reductionist approaches of economism and capability to poverty and will provide an enhanced understanding of the categories of poverty and the poor.

 

Rethinking Poverty in Re/Development Thinking: Anthropological Perspectives, Part II 

CHAIR: ILAHIANE, Hsain (U Kentucky) 

ILAHIANE, Hsain (U Kentucky) Le Maroc est Très Noir: Al-noir and the Perpetuity of Poverty in Morocco 

MCDONALD, Juliana (U Kentucky) It’s Not about the Money: The Real Emic and the Sticky Wicket of Poverty in Davis Bottom, KY 

HÅKANSSON, N. Thomas (Swedish U Ag Sci, U Kentucky) Poverty, Development, and the Misunderstanding of Landesque Capital in Northeastern Tanzania, 

 

BARO, Mamadou (U Arizona) Understanding Resilience in the Context of Poverty and Development Schemes in Niger.

 

Both Sessions took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.