Livelihoods as Intimate Government: Reframing the logic of livelihoods for development

被引:54
作者
Carr, Edward R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ S Carolina, Dept Geog, Columbia, SC 29201 USA
关键词
INTRAHOUSEHOLD RESOURCE-ALLOCATION; DEVELOPMENT POLICY; COMMUNITY; RAINFALL; GHANA; KNOWLEDGE; NETWORKS; GENDER;
D O I
10.1080/01436597.2012.755012
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Livelihoods approaches emerged from a broad range of efforts to understand how people live in particular places. They have since cohered into often instrumentally applied frameworks that rest on the broadly held assumption that livelihoods are principally about the management of one's material circumstances. This assumption limits the explanatory power of livelihoods approaches by shifting a range of motivations for livelihoods decisions outside the analytic frame. This article extends efforts to recover a broader lens on livelihoods decisions and outcomes by conceptualising livelihoods as forms of intimate government, local efforts to shape conduct to definite, shifting, and sometimes contradictory material and social ends. By employing a Foucault-inspired analytics of government to the study of livelihoods in Ghana's Central Region, the paper presents a systematic, implementable approach to the examination of livelihoods and their outcomes in light of this reframing, one where material outcomes are one of many possible ends of intimate government, instead of the end. By opening the analytic lens in this manner, we can explain a much wider set of livelihoods outcomes and decisions than possible under contemporary approaches.
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