Shubin, S, Andrews, W and Sowgat, T (2022) Rhizomatic poverty in aquaculture communities of rural India & Bangladesh. Social & Cultural Geography. 1 - 20. ISSN 1464-9365

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Abstract

The paper uses illustrations from rural India and Bangladesh to develop a critical analysis of practices and experiences of poverty often overlooked in development policies. It challenges the principle measurement, calculative rationality and static representation in anti-poverty interventions that present poverty as a ‘problem’ to be resolved. It draws on poststructuralist ideas to express poverty differently and shift from problem-solving to problematisation. Drawing on the concept of ‘rhizome’ it highlights the connectivity, heterogeneity and multiplicity of poverty. Examples from interviews and photo diaries illustrate manifold poverty as a combination of heterogeneous activities, objects and affects that complicate development ethics and challenge the logic of reason in existing policies. The paper explores improvisation, experimentation, hope and repetition as mechanisms for critically evaluating aquaculture-led development and attending to overlooked objects, uncertain outcomes and untold stories of disadvantage.

Item Type: Article
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Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
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Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 24 May 2022 12:26
Last Modified: 23 Mar 2023 01:30
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/10948

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