مقتطفات من كلمة سيادة السفير علي ماهر في مؤتمر ويكيمانيا 2008
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From the Marginality of the 1960s, to the “New Poverty” of Today: A LARR Research Forum
Abstract: This paper derives from a LARR-sponsored forum at the LARR 2003 Congress held in Dallas in March 2003. Targeted at younger scholars, a panel of leading researchers whose early work was shaped by marginality and dependency thinking of the 1960s were invited to reflect cross-generationally about how paradigms analyzing poverty in Latin American cities have shifted from that time to the present. Specifically, each authors compares “marginality” as it was construed more than three decades ago with contemporary constructions of poverty and social organization arising from their more recent research. While there are important continuities, the authors concur that the so-called “new poverty” today is very different, being more structural, more segmented and, perhaps paradoxically, more exclusionary than before. Moreover, the shift from a largely patrimonialist and undemocratic state towards one that, while more democratic, is also slimmer and downsized, thereby shifting state intervention and welfare systems ever more to local level governments and to the quasi-private sector of NGOs. If earlier marginality theory overemphasized the separation of the poor from the mainstream, today’s new poverty is often embedded within structures of social exclusion that severely reduce opportunities for social mobility among the urban poor...
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Contributor:
Anuradha Bhattacharjee
Published Date:
July 24, 2008
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