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Marginal in status a decade ago, cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low- and middle-income countries. While these programs have had positive effects, they are typical of top-down development interventions in that they impose on local contexts standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery. This book sheds light on the crucial importance of these contexts and the many unpredicted consequences of cash transfer programs worldwide - detailing how the latter are used by actors to pursue their own strategies, and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations.

Marginal in status a decade ago, cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low- and middle-income countries. While these programs have had positive effects, they are typical of top-down development interventions in that they impose on local contexts standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery. This book sheds light on the crucial importance of these contexts and the many unpredicted consequences of cash transfer programs worldwide - detailing how the latter are used by actors to pursue their own strategies, and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations.

This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology's principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity

Les rapports entre anthropologie et science politique ont toujours été complexes, mais une convergence particulière s'est opérée au sein des recherches relatives à l'Afrique entre un réseau de politistes autour de Politique africaine et un réseau de socio-anthropologues autour de l'Apad (Association euro-africaine pour l'étude du changement social et du développement). On peut y voir une irruption de la méthode ethnographique au sein de la science politique d'un côté, un recentrage sur des thèmes issus de la science politique au sein de l'anthropologie de l'autre, ainsi qu'une production conceptuelle croisée. C'est un pas en avant vers l'abolition souhaitable de frontières disciplinaires peu soutenables épistémologiquement.