The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South [Paperback]

The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South presents a unique, timely, comprehensive overview of livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries. Since its widespread adoption in the 1990s, livelihoods perspectives, frameworks and methods have influenced diverse areas of research, policy and practice.

This book addresses livelihoods and the creation and evolution of knowledge on livelihoods through the personhood of millions caught in complex interactions, confronting dynamic inequalities and norms of intellectual delegitimization. It helps researchers, students, practitioners and policy makers see how the latter is an outcome (though unintended) of the dominant development framing of livelihoods. The chapters in this volume equip them to pare given concepts and theories, and to construct their own analytical frameworks that make sense in the light of the multiple dimensions and complexity of livelihoods. For practitioners and researchers in the Global South geographically and heuristically, this book is a rich and timely input to enhance their cognition of power and diversity, democratic accountability and justice when