| A neoliberalisation of civil society? Self-help groups and the labouring class poor in rural South India. | |
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PMID: 20645449 Owner: HMD Status: MEDLINE |
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This paper notes the prominence of self-help groups (SHGs) within current anti-poverty policy in India, and analyses the impacts of government- and NGO-backed SHGs in rural North Karnataka. It argues that self-help groups represent a partial neoliberalisation of civil society in that they address poverty through low-cost methods that do not challenge the existing distribution of power and resources between the dominant class and the labouring class poor. It finds that intra-group savings and loans and external loans/subsidies can provide marginal economic and political gains for members of the dominant class and those members of the labouring classes whose insecure employment patterns currently provide above poverty line consumption levels, but provide neither material nor political gains for the labouring class poor. Target-oriented SHG catalysts are inattentive to how the social relations of production reproduce poverty and tend to overlook class relations and socio-economic and political differentiation within and outside of groups, which are subject to interference by dominant class local politicians and landowners. |
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Authors:
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Jonathan Pattenden |
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Type: Historical Article; Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of peasant studies Volume: 37 ISSN: 0306-6150 ISO Abbreviation: J Peasant Stud Publication Date: 2010 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-07-20 Completed Date: 2010-09-30 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101085258 Medline TA: J Peasant Stud Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 485-512 Citation Subset: Q |
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University of East Anglia, UK. |
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Employment
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economics,
history,
legislation & jurisprudence,
psychology Government Agencies* / economics, history, legislation & jurisprudence Hierarchy, Social* History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Income / history India / ethnology Political Systems / history Poverty* / economics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology Poverty Areas Self-Help Groups* / economics, history, legislation & jurisprudence Social Change / history Social Conditions* / economics, history, legislation & jurisprudence Social Problems / economics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology Social Responsibility Socioeconomic Factors |
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