Poverty as Ideology: Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas (Book Review)

Field, Sean L.

doi:10.26522/ssj.v15i1.2437

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“…The third is the interactional approach, where the behavior of the poor is the result of the interaction between cultural factors embedded in the lives of individuals (Suryono, 2010). Poverty encompasses human needs, which is understood as the lack of means, access to some minimum social or subsistence standards, and norms for human survival (A. M. Fischer, 2018).…”

Section: Extreme Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Poverty related to basic needs is caused by a lack of facilities, access to some social standards, or minimum subsistence and norms for survival (A. M. Fischer, 2018). Without monitoring and validating data collection in the field, the accuracy of the information in rural areas has opened up opportunities for loss of control over the distribution of social assistance.…”

Section: Targeted Social Assistancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Redesigning consolidated data for handling extreme poverty in rural areas based on SDGS DESA

Iskandar

2023

JCPP

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Responses to extreme poverty include ensuring the authenticity of related data. Therefore, studies of data consolidation on handling extreme poverty in rural areas are important. The integration of poverty studies into social science and development fields is crucial for advancing knowledge in these disciplines. This study aims to describe data inequality and collection accuracy in Indonesia. It used a data consolidation approach based on SDGs Desa to explore the disparity in central and regional poverty data collection, which impacts the loss of access to basic rights. Furthermore, this study relied on survey data from 100 villages in 4 of the 5 regencies piloting the projects to tackle extreme poverty in East Java, Indonesia. The results showed that the accuracy of the data influenced the poor categorization, social assistance distribution, and the seriousness of the state in alleviating extreme poverty. Therefore, it becomes the basis for further study in unravelling the dynamics in the design of data collection in rural areas.

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Section: Extreme Povertymentioning

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Section: Targeted Social Assistancementioning

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Redesigning consolidated data for handling extreme poverty in rural areas based on SDGS DESA

Iskandar

2023

JCPP

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“…This entails the importing of academic logics into the world of policy, where decisions are made on evidence that has to be based on sound methods and can gain legitimacy if generated by renowned researchers. These processes, by which policies are more and more based on technical recommendations instead of democratic contestation or ideological choices, have depoliticizing effects (Fischer, 2018), and are shifting power toward experts and researchers. At the same time, where the (potential) recipients of social programs are politically not well represented -due to a lack of voice, remoteness, or lack of influence -research findings fill some of this gap by establishing the needs and monitoring the experiences of individuals.…”

Section: Practice: Porous Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflexivity in global social policy: Introduction to the special issue

Berten,

Wolkenhauer

2023

Global Social Policy

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This introduction sets the scene for the five papers of the special issue on ‘Reflexivity in Global Social Policy’. It argues that a reflexivity lens can deepen a self-critical assessment of the field and its boundaries, and contribute to more conceptual and analytical nuance. The introduction reviews existing approaches that reflect on the key building blocks of the field – ideas, terminology, and theory – and makes a case for addressing the porous boundaries between scholarship and practice. It subsequently suggests the two notions of perspectivity and performativity to inform further reflexive analyses, before introducing the five papers and five forum contributions that constitute this issue.

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“…Targeting leads to segmentation and differentiation. In service provisioning, targeting leads to the creation of a dual structure -one aimed at the poor and funded by the state, and one aimed at the well-to-do and provided by the private sector (Adésínà, 2020;Fischer, 2018Fischer, , 2020Mkandawire, 2005). Mkandawire (2005) further makes a poignant point about targeting and persistence of durable inequality:…”

Section: Mkandawire's Social Policy Corpus: 2000-2020mentioning

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Against Imperial Social Policy: Recasting Mkandawire’s Transformative Ideas for Africa’s Liberation

Phiri

2022

Critical Sociology

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Forty years have passed since the implementation of the pernicious neoliberal structural reforms on the African continent in 1981. If 2021 marked a 40-year commemoration of a diabolical neocolonial project such as neoliberalism, then the year 2020 signified another 40-year period of rebirth aborted, as the Lagos Plan of Action of 1980 was undermined in favour of the Berg Report of 1981. These two periodizations delineate African liberation or continued neocolonial oppression, yet also coincide with Thandika Mkandawire’s life’s strivings. How do Mkandawire’s ideas on social policy, inspired by radical African Nationalists, aid in the dismantling of contemporary forms of racialized neoliberal social policy making? Mkandawire’s life straddled two 40-year periods (1940–1980 and 1980–2020) marked by sui generis contributions to African and global social sciences. This paper recasts his scholarly contributions on transformative social policy as a prophetic theoretician of African liberation. Mkandawire’s scholarly corpus provides a programmatic approach to the unmaking of a hierarchical racialized neoliberal global order.

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Poverty as Ideology: Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas (Book Review)

Cited by 8 publications

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Redesigning consolidated data for handling extreme poverty in rural areas based on SDGS DESA

Redesigning consolidated data for handling extreme poverty in rural areas based on SDGS DESA

Reflexivity in global social policy: Introduction to the special issue

Against Imperial Social Policy: Recasting Mkandawire’s Transformative Ideas for Africa’s Liberation

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