Infrastructuring aid : materializing social protection in Northern Kenya
| dc.contributor.author | Donovan, Kevin P. | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Kenya | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-17T13:08:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-10-17T13:08:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In numerous African countries, humanitarian and development organizations—as well as governments—are expanding expenditures on social protection schemes as a means of poverty alleviation. These initiatives, which typically provide small cash grants to poor households, are often considered particularly agreeable for the simplicity of their administration and the feasibility of their implementation. This paper examines the background work required to deploy social protection in one especially remote area: the margins of postcolonial Kenya. Specifically, it documents the often-overlooked social and technical construction of the infrastructure necessary so that cash transfers may function with the ease and simplicity for which they are commended. Attention to the practice of ‘infrastructuring’ offers insights into the tensions and politics of what is rapidly becoming a key form of transnational governance in the global south, especially the way in which market-based means and humanitarian ethics overlap. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Donovan, Kevin P. (2013). <i>Infrastructuring aid : materializing social protection in Northern Kenya</i> (CSSR Working Paper Series ; no. 333). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Survey Unit. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8573 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Donovan, Kevin P. <i>Infrastructuring aid : materializing social protection in Northern Kenya.</i> CSSR Working Paper Series ; no. 333. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Survey Unit, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8573 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Donovan, K.P. 2013. Infrastructuring Aid: Materializing Social Protection in Northern Kenya. CSSR Working Paper No. 333. Cape Town: Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-77011-322-0 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Donovan, Kevin P. AB - In numerous African countries, humanitarian and development organizations—as well as governments—are expanding expenditures on social protection schemes as a means of poverty alleviation. These initiatives, which typically provide small cash grants to poor households, are often considered particularly agreeable for the simplicity of their administration and the feasibility of their implementation. This paper examines the background work required to deploy social protection in one especially remote area: the margins of postcolonial Kenya. Specifically, it documents the often-overlooked social and technical construction of the infrastructure necessary so that cash transfers may function with the ease and simplicity for which they are commended. Attention to the practice of ‘infrastructuring’ offers insights into the tensions and politics of what is rapidly becoming a key form of transnational governance in the global south, especially the way in which market-based means and humanitarian ethics overlap. DA - 2013-12 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Social security KW - Economic assistance, Domestic KW - Poverty LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 SM - 978-1-77011-322-0 T1 - Infrastructuring aid : materializing social protection in Northern Kenya TI - Infrastructuring aid : materializing social protection in Northern Kenya UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8573 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8573 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Donovan Kevin P. Infrastructuring aid : materializing social protection in Northern Kenya. 2013 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8573 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Social Survey Unit | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | CSSR Working Paper Series ; no. 333 | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | Social security | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Economic assistance, Domestic | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Poverty | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Infrastructuring aid : materializing social protection in Northern Kenya | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Working paper | en_ZA |