Livelihoods Limitations: The Political Economy of Urban Poverty in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Livelihoods Limitations: The Political Economy of Urban Poverty in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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DOI：
10.1111/dech.12219
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发表时间：
2016-03-01
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3
通讯作者：
Banks, Nicola
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作者：
Banks, Nicola
在孟加拉国进行的研究表明，以行动者为导向的框架在理解城市贫穷方面存在局限性，这种框架根据家庭的资产或资本组合来评估家庭生计。这些框架对家庭的狭隘关注及其对社会资本的非政治化定义忽视了城市贫困的政治根源。主导低收入住区资源分配的非正式治理制度确保了长期改善家庭状况所需的社会资源仅限于少数精英。只有将我们的分析扩展到家庭层面之外，探索他们在当地就业和企业政治经济中的地位，我们才能认识到家庭改善生计的努力受到的限制。
Research in Bangladesh reveals the limitations of actor-oriented frameworks for understanding urban poverty that assess household livelihoods on the basis of a household's portfolio of assets or capitals. The narrow focus of these frameworks on households and their depoliticized definition of social capital overlook the political roots of urban poverty. The informal systems of governance that dominate resource distribution within low-income settlements ensure that the social resources necessary for long-term household improvement are confined to a small elite. Only through extending our analysis beyond the household level, to explore their position within this local political economy of employment and enterprise, can we recognize the limitations placed on household efforts to improve their livelihoods.