The idea of giving cash, no-strings-attached, to the poor has become popular in the twenty-first century. While hardly a radical form of global redistribution, these cash grants, often known as unconditional cash transfers, claim to offer a new type of care that is less paternalistic than other forms of assistance. Caring Cash explores the caring practices that these grant experiments produced and revealed in the Nairobi ghetto of Korogocho. After receiving the grants, people there not only looked after themselves and their families, friends, lovers, clients and patrons, but they also maintained the bonds that held them all together. Putting his interlocutors' lives in conversation with ideas around care, ethics and economies, Tom Neumark argues that for those in the ghetto, caring for relationships is as important as the care that takes place within them. Seeing care in this way reveals the importance of managing one's proximity, distance and detachment from others, and raises questions about the disquieting decisions that allow people to live together amidst violence and poverty.
- ISBN:
- 9780745340142
- 9780745340142
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Category:
- Development studies
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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20-02-2023
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Pluto Press
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Dimensions (mm):
- 215.9x139.7x17.78mm
- Weight:
- 0.32kg
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