An Excellent Paper by David Mosse on Poverty

Hi All,

Here is an extra reading for your spare time. This is a paper by David Mosse, who is a development anthropologist based at SOAS. The paper is titled Power and the durability of poverty: a critical exploration of the links between culture, marginality and chronic poverty. It was just published in 2007.
It is a bit long and a bit dense but very very interesting linking the structural and social causes/meanings of poverty. And also linking poverty and power.

Here is a link to the paper:

http://www.chronicpoverty.org/resources/cp107.htm

Read the abstract and then you can download the paper from the right hand side icon (pretty obvious I think :))


David Mosse is generally someone whose work in development is very interesting to read. He published a book called Cultivating Development, which is basically an ethnography of a development project he worked in as part of a consultancy team with DFID. Another interesting book of his is called On Brokerage and Translation, which is an edited piece with David Lewis. This one is about people who are in between two worlds(for example those who work with local NGO's) and how they translate the meanings of development between development workers and aid receivers.