Neoliberalism, governance, and the geographies of conditional cash transfers

Garmany, Jeff

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.10.003

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“…Inequality is embedded in the very institutions responsible for policy‐making, creating the conditions for inequalities to persist (Paredes and Thorp ; Thorp and Paredes ). Bearing this in mind, the paper adds to an important yet incipient body of critical ethnographies that interrogate the gap between intended and unintended CCT outcomes (Corboz ; Dotson ; Garmany ). These accounts are imperative to making practical challenges to dominant quantitative evaluations and “feel good” discourses that have driven the rapid spread of CCT policy.…”

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Working for Inclusion? Conditional Cash Transfers, Rural Women, and the Reproduction of Inequality

Cookson

2016

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Throughout the global South, conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs) are used to promote socially inclusive development. CCTs are widely evaluated for their capacity to build children's human capital. In contrast, this paper aims to hold "social inclusion" to account by elucidating the impacts of Peru's CCT "Juntos" on the poor, rural mothers who are expected to meet programme conditions. Grounded in extensive ethnographic research in households, clinics, schools, and village halls, the paper interrogates the work of social inclusion in spaces where uneven development manifests itself in privation. Considered in light of critical feminist theories of performativity and social reproduction, the findings shed light on a far less optimistic reality for the work of social inclusion. This paper contributes a rich empirical account to critical literature on cash transfers and the discourses that drive them, and suggests that the circumstances under which women are required to fulfil programme conditions challenge the substance of contemporary "inclusive" development.

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Working for Inclusion? Conditional Cash Transfers, Rural Women, and the Reproduction of Inequality

Cookson

2016

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“…Such arrangements are standard for MCMV housing, which, unlike some other social programmes in Brazil (e.g. the Bolsa Famıĺia conditional cash transfer programme -see Garmany, 2016), are administered by the private sector. For Priscila, however, 'they' represented an unscrupulous actor, more interested in profits than housing low-income families.…”

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‘An open secret’: Public housing and downward raiding in Rio de Janeiro

Garmany

Burdick

2020

Urban Studies

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This article examines a case of urban displacement currently underway in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In some respects, this case represents a classic example of what researchers call ‘downward raiding’: a type of urban displacement whereby low-income housing is exploited by higher-income groups. Yet, in other respects, it also raises important questions about the ways urban displacement happens in public housing, as well as how downward raiding operates on the ground in cities. By exploring these questions, this article aims to accomplish two goals: first, to investigate an overlooked and often hidden form of urban displacement that, in this case, coincides with a large-scale, public–private housing initiative; and, second, to critically interrogate the concept of downward raiding in order to better understand and define the process. It is argued that by placing greater emphasis on how, empirically speaking, urban displacement happens, researchers may gain new insight into diverse forms of urban displacement in cities around the world.

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“…Writes Akhil Gupta, "one has to remember how [governmentality] is itself a conjuntural and crisisridden enterprise, how it engenders its own modes of resistance, and makes, meets, molds, or is contested by new subjects" (2012, page 239). Such perspective is especially useful for considering CCTs: while reasons for their failure to produce intended neoliberal governance outcomes have been explored (Garmany, 2016), still missing are critical investigations of the ways beneficiaries engage program conditionalities. More directly, and following Gupta, how might CCTs produce new modes of resistance, and how are conditionalities met and contested by recipient populations?…”

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“…CCTs may be intended to increase state influence, oversight, and governmentality (Hossain, 2010) -including connecting poor people to formal employment (Garmany, 2016) -such outcomes are complicated by the ways recipient families negotiate program conditionalities.…”

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Strategies of conditional cash transfers and the tactics of resistance

Garmany

2016

Environ Plan A

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This article examines how poor people negotiate obligations placed on them by social welfare initiatives. More specifically, it considers conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs), and the ways beneficiaries harness program conditionalities to make demands on authorities, in some cases even enacting subtle forms of resistance to state governance. Drawing from Michel de Certeau, it argues that while CCT conditionalities function as strategies of state development, they are not always/already under exclusive state control. Marginalized groups like CCT recipients can tactically harness these conditionalities. Through such tactics, poor people make demands on the state and deflect program obligations, but in calculated ways that avoid exposing them to greater vulnerability. Drawing from empirical data collected as part of a case study in rural northeastern Brazil, this article contributes to existent bodies of literature on CCTs, governance, and critical development studies in the 21st century.

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Neoliberalism, governance, and the geographies of conditional cash transfers

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

Working for Inclusion? Conditional Cash Transfers, Rural Women, and the Reproduction of Inequality

Working for Inclusion? Conditional Cash Transfers, Rural Women, and the Reproduction of Inequality

‘An open secret’: Public housing and downward raiding in Rio de Janeiro

Strategies of conditional cash transfers and the tactics of resistance

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