Livelihoods and development : : new perspectives / / edited by Leo de Haan.

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 stru...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (215 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • From Poverty to Social Exclusion: A Livelihoods Introductory / Leo de Haan
  • Understanding Poverty, Defining Interventions: Why Social Relations Need More Attention in Livelihoods Analyses and Why This Complicates Development Practice / Urs Geiser
  • Mobility, Space and Livelihood Trajectories: New Perspectives on Migration, Translocality and Place-Making for Livelihood Studies / Benjamin Etzold
  • Social Inclusion and Sustainable Livelihood Trajectories of Portuguese Immigrants in Curaçao: From Contracted Oil Workers through Agro-Commercial Entrepreneurship to Business Elite / Charles do Rego and Jeanne de Bruijn
  • Two Decades of Livelihood Transformation and Community Pathways in the Bolivian Andes / Jan Willem le Grand and Annelies Zoomers
  • Defending Homeland and Regaining Freedoms: Interpreting Livelihoods among Conflict-Affected Communities in Southern Lebanon / Clare Collingwood Esland
  • New Connections – New Dependencies: Spatial and Digital Flows in Sub-Saharan African Livelihoods / Griet Steel , Ine Cottyn and Paul van Lindert
  • Power and Pathways, Violent Conflict and Mobility: Empirical Findings and Conceptual Innovations in Livelihoods Studies / Leo de Haan.