Cash Transfers in Context : : An Anthropological Perspective / / ed. by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Emmanuelle Piccoli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Agudo Sanchíz, Alejandro,; Chelpi-den Hamer, Magali,; Correa Aste, Norma,; Dapuez, Andrés,; Duff Morton, Gregory,; Elisa Balen, Maria,; Gavigan, Sabrina,; Gillespie, Bronwen,; Hamani, Oumarou,; Jones, Nicola,; Margolies, Amy,; Nagels, Nora,; Piccoli, Emmanuelle,; Roopnaraine, Terry,; Samuels, Fiona,; Sardan, Jean-Pierre Olivier de,; Sholkamy, Hania,
• HerausgeberIn: Piccoli, Emmanuelle,; Sardan, Jean-Pierre Olivier de,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)

Marginal in status a decade ago, cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low- and middle-income countries. While these programs have had positive effects, they are typical of top-down development interventions in that they impose on local contexts standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery. This book sheds light on the crucial importance of these contexts and the many unpredicted consequences of cash transfer programs worldwide - detailing how the latter are used by actors to pursue their own strategies, and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Cash Transfers and the Revenge of Contexts: An Introduction -- Chapter 1. Miracle Mechanisms, Traveling Models, and the Revenge of Contexts: Cash Transfer Programs; A Textbook Case -- Chapter 2. Realizing Cash Transfer Programs through Collective Obligations: An Ethnography of Co-responsibility in Mexico -- Chapter 3. Types of Permanence: Conditional Cash, Economic Difference, and Gender Practice in Northeastern Brazil -- Chapter 4. Queuing in the Sun: The Salience of Implementation Practices in Recipients’ Experience of a Conditional Cash Transfer -- Chapter 5. Conditional Cash Transfer Program Implementation and Effects in Peruvian Indigenous Contexts -- Chapter 6. Making Good Mothers: Conditions, Coercion, and Local Reactions in the Juntos Program in Peru -- Chapter 7 Expectations beyond Development: Toward a Prospective Chronology of Cash Transfers from Mexico to Argentina -- Chapter 8. Conditional Cash Transfer and Gender, Class, and Ethnic Domination: The Case of Bolivia -- Chapter 9 Behind the Official Story: The Unintended Effects of Social Transfer Programs in Conflict-Affected Contexts -- Chapter 10. Are Cash Transfers Rocking or Wrecking the World of Social Workers in Egypt? -- Chapter 11. Juggling between Social Obligations and Personal Benefit in Western Côte d’Ivoire: How Do Ex-combatants Spend Their Cash Allowance? -- Chapter 12. Cash Transfers in Rural Niger -- Index