The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South

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The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South presents a unique, timely, comprehensive overview of livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries. Since their widespread adoption in the 1990s, livelihoods perspectives, frameworks and methods have influenced diverse areas of research, policy and practice.

The concept of livelihoods reflects the complexity of strategies and practices used by individuals, households and communities to meet their needs and live their lives. The Handbook brings together insights and critical analysis from diverse approaches and experiences, learning from research and practice over the last 30 years. The Handbook comprises an introductory section on key concepts and frameworks, followed by five parts, on researching livelihoods, negotiating livelihoods, generating livelihoods, enabling livelihoods and contextualising livelihoods. The introduction provides readers with an appreciation of concepts researched and applied in the five parts, including chapters on vulnerability and resilience, social capital and networks, and institutions. Each part reflects the diversity of approaches taken to understanding livelihoods, whilst recognising commonalities, including the centrality of power in shaping, enabling and constraining livelihoods. The book also reflects diversity of context, including conflict, climate change and religion, as well as in generating livelihoods, through agriculture, small-scale mining and pastoralism. The aim of each chapter is to provide a critically informed introduction and overview of key concepts, issues and debates of relevance to the topic, with each chapter concluding with suggestions for further reading.

It will be an essential resource to students, researchers and practitioners of international development and related fields. Researchers and practitioners will also benefit from the book's diverse disciplinary contributions and by the wide and contemporary coverage.

Author(s): Fiona Nunan, Barnes Clare, Krishnamurthy Sukanya
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 526
City: Cham

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Contents
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Introduction
1 Livelihoods in the Global South
2 Livelihoods: concepts and frameworks
3 The Capability Approach as an analytic lens for studying livelihoods
4 Livelihoods and institutions
5 Vulnerability and resilience
6 Social capital and social networks
7 A rights-based approach for sustainable livelihoods
Part I Researching livelihoods: approaches and methods
8 Critically understanding livelihoods in the Global South: researchers, research practices and power
9 Quantitative approaches to analyse rural livelihood strategies
10 Longitudinal research to understand the complexity of livelihoods
11 The use of ethnography for livelihoods research
12 Using participatory rural appraisal to research livelihoods
13 Using participatory video in researching livelihoods in the Global South: the why and wherefore
14 Using participatory GPS methods to develop rich understandings of people’s diverse and complex livelihoods in the Global South
Part II Negotiating livelihoods
15 Power and livelihoods
16 Feminist political ecology
17 Democratic politics and livelihoods in Africa
18 Social accountability in Asia’s livelihoods: the role of sanctions and rewards
19 Advocating for livelihoods through social movements
20 Education and livelihoods in the Global South
21 Youth livelihoods: negotiating intergenerationality and responsibility
22 The governance and regulation of the informal economy: implications for livelihoods and decent work
23 Disability and sustainable livelihoods: towards inclusive community-based development
Part III Generating livelihoods
24 Environmental income and rural livelihoods
25 Forests and livelihoods
26 Agricultural livelihoods, rural development policy and political ecologies of land and water: exploring new agrarian questions
27 Pastoralism and livelihoods in the Global South
28 Fisheries livelihoods
29 Complexity and heterogeneity in the informal economy of waste: problems and prospects for organising and formalising
30 Planning for sustainable urban livelihoods in Africa
31 Artisanal mining and livelihoods in the Global South
Part IV Enabling livelihoods
32 Conceptualising migration and livelihoods: perspectives from the Global South
33 International migration and experiences of Indian women migrants: a critical analysis of the Kafala system
34 Remittances and economic development in the Global South
35 Mobile money, financial inclusion and livelihoods in the Global South
36 The role of microfinance in mediating livelihoods
37 Global markets and southern livelihoods: exploring trans-scalar connections
38 Contextualising urban transport systems and livelihoods in developing countries: the case of Bus Rapid Transit project
Part V Contextualising livelihoods
39 Livelihoods and social protection
40 Collective organisations: an introduction to their contributions to livelihoods in the Global South
41 Rebuilding livelihoods to reduce disaster vulnerabilities
42 Religion and livelihoods studies
43 Climate change adaptation and agricultural livelihoods of smallholder farmers
44 Livelihoods and disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration: from security to inclusive development
45 Livelihoods in conflict-affected settings
46 Land tenure transformations in the Global South: privatisation, marketisation and dispossession in contemporary rural Asia
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