1st Edition

Socio-Economic Insecurity in Emerging Economies Building new spaces

Edited By Khayaat Fakier, Ellen Ehmke Copyright 2014
260 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and governments in all three countries are faced with similar challenges of heightened insecurity, caused by liberalization and structural adjustment. The ways in which governments, as well as individuals and worker organisations in IBSA have responded to... Read more

1: Introduction: Work, Livelihoods and Insecurity in the 21st Century: A Conceptual Introduction, Edward Webster & Sharit Bhowmik  PART I Urban and Rural Livelihood Strategies  2. Introduction: Urban and Rural Livelihood Strategies, Mouleshri Vyas  3. Precarious Workers, Different Voices: Johannesburg’s Inner City Workers, Katherine Joynt & Edward Webster  4. Labour and Migration Patterns: The Clothing Industry and Bolivian Migrants, Cibele Rizek, Isabel Georges & Carlos Freire da Silva   5. Public Space and Livelihood Security in the Urban Economy: The Case of Street Vendors in Mumbai, Debdulal Saha  6. Charcoal for Food: Livelihood Diversification in Two Peasant Communities in Mozambique, Claudia Levy & Brigitte Kaufmann   7. Conservancy work in Mumbai and Johannesburg: Retention at the Periphery, Mouleshri Vyas  8. Organising the Unorganised: Mumbai’s Home Workers Lead the Way, Indira Gartenberg & Sharit Bhowmik  PART 2: State Responses to Insecurity  9. Introduction: State Responses to Insecurity, Ellen Ehmke  10. Strategies for Social Protection Provision: A Comparison of Brazil, India and South Africa, Ellen Ehmke  11. State Responses to Insecurity: Social Assistance and Care in South Africa, Khayaat Fakier  12. Practice and Priorities of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India: An Activist’s Perspective, KS Gopal  13. Brazil’s Strategy against Poverty: The Bolsa Família and Brasil SEM Miséria, Amilton Moretto  PART 3 Alternative Development Paths  14. Introduction: Alternative Development Paths, Jacklyn Cock   15. The Solidarity Economy Alternative in South Africa: Theory and Practice, Andrew Bennie  16. The Buen Vivir (good life) in Latin America: An Alternative Developmental Concept Challenging Extractivism in Ecuador, Mona Aranea Guillén  17. The Lula Moment: Constraints in the Current Peripheral Development Model, Ruy Braga   18. The ‘Green Economy’: A ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ or an Alternative Development Path for South Africa?, Jacklyn Cock  19. Envisioning Environmental Futures: Conversations around Socio-ecological Struggles and Industrialisation in Mundra, India, Kanchi Kohli  20. Conclusions: Building New Spaces: Responses to Insecurity in the Global South, Khayaat Fakier and Ellen Ehmke

Biography

Dr. Khayaat Fakier is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Ellen Ehmke is a PhD candidate at the International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), University of Kassel, Germany.