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 their 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 experiences, learning from research and practice over the last 30 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 five parts, including chapters on vulnerability and resilience, social capital and networks, and institutions. Each part reflects 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |77 pages
Introduction
part I|78 pages
Researching livelihoods
chapter 8|12 pages
Critically Understanding Livelihoods in the Global South
chapter 13|13 pages
Using Participatory Video in Researching Livelihoods in the Global South
part II|100 pages
Negotiating livelihoods
chapter 22|9 pages
The Governance and Regulation of the Informal Economy
chapter 23|11 pages
Disability and Sustainable Livelihoods
part III|100 pages
Generating livelihoods
chapter 26|18 pages
Agricultural Livelihoods, Rural Development Policy and Political Ecologies of Land and Water
chapter 29|11 pages
Complexity and Heterogeneity in the Informal Economy of Waste
part IV|78 pages
Enabling livelihoods
chapter 33|14 pages
International Migration and Experiences of Indian Women Migrants
chapter 38|10 pages
Contextualising Urban Transport Systems and Livelihoods in Developing Countries
part V|84 pages
Contextualising livelihoods