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SUMMARY:Give a Man a Fish: From Patriarchal Productionism to the Politics 
 of Distribution in Southern Africa (and Beyond) - Professor James Ferguson
 \, Stanford University
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, new and expanded programs of cash transfers 
 have transformed the landscapes of poverty\, social assistance\, and citiz
 enship (both within southern Africa and across the global South)\, yet sch
 olars have often failed to grant these developments the attention they war
 rant. This paper argues that this inattention derives from deeply rooted i
 deas about the relative value of production and distribution -- ideas that
  are becoming ever-more out of step with contemporary social and economic 
 realities. It begins by reviewing the ubiquity of anti-distributionist sen
 timent in the domains both of scholarship and of practical policy-making\,
  and explores the masculinist and misogynistic bases of such hostility tow
 ard distribution. It then notes certain reasons to believe that this state
  of affairs may be changing. Exploring recent distributive struggles in So
 uth Africa and Namibia as a window onto these new political possibilities\
 , it argues that a new politics of distribution is emerging\, in which cit
 izenship-based claims to a share of national wealth are beginning to be re
 cognizable as an alternative to both the paradigm of the market (where goo
 ds are received in exchange for labor) and that of “the gift” (where s
 ocial transfers to those excluded from wage labor have been conceived as a
 id\, charity\, or assistance).\n\nJames Ferguson is the Susan S. and Willi
 am H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Profes
 sor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. His research
  has focused on southern Africa (especially Lesotho\, Zambia\, South Afric
 a\, and Namibia)\, and has engaged a broad range of theoretical and ethnog
 raphic issues. These include the politics of “development”\, rural-urb
 an migration\, changing topographies of property and wealth\, construction
 s of space and place\, urban culture in mining towns\, experiences of mode
 rnity\, the spatialization of states\, the place of “Africa” in a real
  and imagined world\, and the theory and politics of ethnography. Professo
 r Ferguson is the author of The Anti-Politics Machine (1990)\, Expectation
 s of Modernity (1999)\, Global Shadows (2006)\, and Give a Man a Fish (201
 5).\n\nPlease book your seat here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-audr
 ey-richards-annual-lecture-in-african-studies-2015-tickets-15326002486
LOCATION:LG17\, Cambridge Faculty of Law\, 10 West Road\, Cambridge CB3 9D
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