ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South presents a unique, timely, comprehensive overview of livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries. Since its 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 experience, learning from research and practice over the last thirty 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 subsequent sections, including chapters on vulnerability and resilience, social capital and networks, and institutions. The following sections each reflect 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.
0.Introduction. 1.Livelihoods in the Global South. 2.Livelihoods: concepts and framework. 3.The Capability Approach as an analytic lens for studying livelihood. 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, Demobilization 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.
