Cash Transfers in Context

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan is Professor of Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (both in France). He is also based at LASDEL, Niger. He has written numerous books in French and in English and is currently working on an empirical anthropology of public actions and modes of governance in West Africa.

“The book is recommendable for anyone interested in the recent proliferation of a seemingly globalised social policy, that, however, is here shown to have very different faces, logics and effects in different localities across the global South.” • Critical Social Policy“This is a very interesting study of targeted cash transfers mainly from an anthropological perspective. While, as the authors point out, there is an abundant literature on such transfers (particularly in terms of ‘grey’ literature) most of this is heavily econometric and top-down rather than providing a more bottom-up perspective.…an innovative study which deserves a wide readership both amongst academics and policy makers working in the field.” • European Journal of Social Security“Read this book for a thoughtful analysis of how models travel if you are interested in  institutional diffusion and  the globalisation of social policy…[It shows that] Anthropology can make a contribution to understanding the politics of aid and social policy.” • Anthrodendum“This book has much to say to scholars, students and practitioners of development. It addresses a particular development model which is widely disseminated around the globe, neither aiming to endorse nor critique it in principle, but to examine how it actually works, or fails to work, in specific locations.” • Lindsay DuBois, Dalhousie University“This book – the first collection of its kind – will make an important contribution to the literature on cash transfer programs. Many of the chapters are written by practitioners with in-depth knowledge of the communities they write about, which brings an on-the-ground perspective that is often missing from the literature.” • Linda Abarbanell, San Diego State University

• List of Figures and TablesCash Transfers and the Revenge of Contexts: An IntroductionJean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Emmanuelle PiccoliChapter 1. Miracle Mechanisms, Travelling Models, and the Revenge of the Contexts: 
Cash Transfer Programmes; A Textbook CaseJean-Pierre Olivier de SardanChapter 2. Realizing Cash Transfer Programs through Collective Obligations: An Ethnography of Co-responsibility in MexicoAlejandro Agudo SanchízChapter 3. Types of Permanence: Conditional Cash, Economic Difference, and Gender Practice in Northeastern BrazilGregory Duff MortonChapter 4. Queuing in the Sun: The Salience of Implementation Practices in Recipients’ Experience of a Conditional Cash TransferMaria Elisa BalenChapter 5. Conditional Cash Transfer Program Implementation and Effects in Peruvian Indigenous ContextsNorma Correa Aste, Terry Roopnaraine and Amy MargoliesChapter 6. Making Good Mothers: Conditions, Coercion, and Local Reactions in the Juntos Program in PeruEmmanuelle Piccoli and Bronwen GillespieChapter 7. Expectations beyond Development: Towards a Prospective Chronology of Cash Transfers from Mexico to ArgentinaAndrés Dapuez and Sabrina GaviganChapter 8. Conditional Cash Transfer and Gender, Class, and Ethnic Domination: The Case of BoliviaNora NagelsChapter 9. Behind the Official Story: The Unintended Effects of Social Transfer Programmes in Conflict-Affected ContextsFiona Samuels and Nicola JonesChapter 10. Are Cash Transfers Rocking or Wrecking the World of Social Workers in Egypt?Hania SholkamyChapter 11. Juggling between Social Obligations and Personal Benefit in Western Côte d’Ivoire: How Do Ex-combatants Spend their Cash Allowance?Magali Chelpi-den HamerChapter 12. Cash Transfers in Rural Niger: Social Targeting as a Conflict of NormsJean Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Oumarou HamaniIndex