Code ISS-4202
Weight of the course
Period
8 ECTS
TERM 2
Course Leader Erhard Berner, Amrita Chhachhi
Lecturer Erhard Berner, Amrita Chhachhi
Teaching Methods Participatory Lecture, Workshop
Exam
Contact
Written examination: 50%, Assignment(s): 50%
Josée Haanappel
Learning objectives
Students will be able to:
 apply new gendered conceptualizations of poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion, and analyze the multidimensional manifestations of poverty and impoverishment;
 analyze and assess debates on the state versus the market in relation to systems of social provisioning and protection, and critically evaluate gendered/class/ethnic/caste outcomes;
 develop an in-depth understanding of the design, potentialities and limits of current poverty reduction schemes and programmes at macro, meso and micro levels;
 identify alternative strategies, policy interventions and innovative subaltern responses aimed at eliminating poverty on the basis of principles of gender justice and social and economic justice.
Course description
This course examines debates, policies and interventions aiming at poverty reduction. It provides an interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional gendered poverty lens to assess the experience of poverty/vulnerability/social exclusion and programs of social protection and poverty reduction. It provides a standpoint to address asymmetry in access to resources and the care economy, the opportunit y for voice and ‘citizenship in practice’, and other aspects crucial to well-being such as self-respect, dignity, empowerment and participation. By linking issues of redistribution of resources with issues of recognition of multiple identities, subjectivity and agency, the course will enable students to conceptualize and apply an intersectional approach to social, economic and gender justice .
Indicative Readings
UNRISD (2010), Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics .
Geneva: United Nations Research Institute on Social Development.
Barrientos, A., Hulme, D. (2008) Social protection for the poor and poorest.
Basingstoke and New
York: Palgrave.
Chant, S. (2007) Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the 'Feminisation of Poverty' in
Africa, Asia and Latin America , Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Hassim, S. & Razavi, S. (eds.) (2006) Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of 'the Social’ . Basingstoke, Palgrave.
Pearson, R., S. Razavi and C. Danloy, (eds.) (2004) Global, Export Oriented Employment and
Social Policy: Gendered Connections, New York, London, Palgrave Macmillan.
Rakodi, C. and T. Lloyd-Jones (2002) Urban Livelihoods: A People-centred Approach to
Reducing Poverty . London: Earthscan.