Socio-Economic Insecurity in Emerging Economies

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 these challenges are at the core of this book. The book explores the nature of insecurity in the Global South; the nature of the responses to this insecurity on public and small-scale collective as well as individual level; the potential of these responses to be more than neo-liberal mechanisms to govern and contain the poor and lessons to be learnt from these three countries.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1: Introduction: Work, Livelihoods and Insecurity in the 21st Century: A Conceptual Introduction, PART I Urban and Rural Livelihood Strategies 2. Introduction: Urban and Rural Livelihood Strategies 3. Precarious Workers, Different Voices: Johannesburg's Inner City Workers 4. Labour and Migration Patterns: The Clothing Industry and Bolivian Migrants 5. Public Space and Livelihood Security in the Urban Economy: The Case of Street Vendors in Mumbai 6. Charcoal for Food: Livelihood Diversification in Two Peasant Communities in Mozambique 7. Conservancy work in Mumbai and Johannesburg: Retention at the Periphery 8. Organising the Unorganised: Mumbai's Home Workers Lead the Way PART 2: State Responses to Insecurity 9. Introduction: State Responses to Insecurity 10. Strategies for Social Protection Provision: A Comparison of Brazil, India and South Africa 11. State Responses to Insecurity: Social Assistance and Care in South Africa 12. Practice and Priorities of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India: An Activist's Perspective 13. Brazil's Strategy against Poverty: The Bolsa Família and Brasil SEM Miséria PART 3 Alternative Development Paths** 14. Introduction: Alternative Development Paths 15. The Solidarity Economy Alternative in South Africa: Theory and Practice 16. The Buen Vivir (good life) in Latin America: An Alternative Developmental Concept Challenging Extractivism in Ecuador 17. The Lula Moment: Constraints in the Current Peripheral Development Model 18. The 'Green Economy': A 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing' or an Alternative Development Path for South Africa? 19. Envisioning Environmental Futures: Conversations around Socio-ecological Struggles and Industrialisation in Mundra, India 20. Conclusions: Building New Spaces: Responses to Insecurity in the Global South,