Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution
By J. Ferguson. 2015
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In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death of the welfare state. These programs' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass unemployment, Ferguson argues, provide an opportunity for rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of political mobilization. Interested in an emerging "politics of distribution," Ferguson shows how new demands for direct income payments (including so-called "basic income") require us to reexamine the relation between production and distribution, and to ask new questions about markets, livelihoods, labor, and the future of progressive politics.
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- The Livelihood Impacts of Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Beneficiary Perspectives from Six Countries (2017, background): “Finally, ethnographic research by De Sardan and colleagues that examines the local political dynamics of CT programs in Niger (De Sardan, 2014; De Sardan, Hamani, Issaley, Adamou, & Oumaron, 2014; see also Ferguson, 2015).”
- Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (2017, unknown): “As Ferguson (2015) points out, drawing on Žižek (2010), oil has seemingly magical properties, defying the labor theory of value in its capacity to generate tremendous value relative to the investment in (conventional forms of) its extraction (as long as environmental costs are externalized, of…”
- Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19 (2020, background): “Significantly improved social safety nets and income floors, including consideration of comprehensive policies such as a Universal Basic Income, and public programs modeled on principles of wealth redistribution (Ferguson, 2015); 2.”