Politicised Provision: Development and Welfare under Latin America's New Left

政治化规定：拉丁美洲新左派的发展与福利

• 批准号: ES/P009832/1
• 负责人: David Cooper
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FP009832%2F1
• 关键词: Politicised; Provision; Development; Welfare; under

Latin America has in recent decades witnessed a dramatic political shift to the left. Numerous leftist political parties have achieved and retained power, primarily through the ballot box, in what scholars have described as a "Pink Tide" sweeping the continent. Central to the political platforms of many of these governments have been a range of novel social programs and welfare initiatives oriented towards the most disadvantaged members of society. In a continent where inequality remains staggeringly high, these forms of poverty-reduction program have been a central basis of the popularity achieved by the governments of the 'new left'.Despite the centrality of these social programs to the political projects of 'new left' governments, we know little about how they are understood and experienced by the people at whom they are targeted. Much has been written about the policies and politics of the 'new left', but this commentary has often been polarised and contradictory. For some, the emergence of redistributive social programs after a period of neoliberalism has been welcomed and celebrated, and measurable improvements in well-being among impoverished beneficiaries have been emphasised. For others, the programs appear to be bound up with a rising tide of populism that threatens to undermine democracy and weaken liberal institutions across the continent; trends which are understood to be contrary to the interests of the poor majority.Focusing on the Nicaraguan case, this fellowship aims to move beyond these polarised debates by exploring the perspective of the people whose lives these social projects affect most directly. Because one thing is clear: it is not just scholars who express strong feelings about this range of highly-politicised social programs. Participants themselves (along with potential participants) hold powerful opinions regarding the value and purpose of the projects. Indeed, in many of the countries which comprise the 'Pink Tide', the projects have become a focal point for intense political activity among the rural and urban poor. Based upon close ethnographic study of the experiences of project beneficiaries, the fellowship will seek to promote understanding of how these intense political hopes and aspirations invested in the social projects of the new left impact upon their successes and failures.The key idea to be pursued here is that there is much to be gained from understanding the ways in which welfare provision overlaps with the forms of political subjectivity revealed by close ethnographic investigation. If participants in 'new left' social projects invest those programs with powerful desires for political inclusion and recognition as citizens, understanding why projects have the results they do requires that this complex dynamic be understood and taken into account. By making steps in this direction, the fellowship aims to promote the improvement of the design, delivery and evaluation of 'new left' social welfare programs in Nicaragua and beyond.

拉丁美洲近几十年来目睹了左派发生了巨大的政治转变。许多左派政党已经实现并保留了权力，主要是通过投票箱来实现的，而学者称这是席卷大陆的“粉红色潮汐”。这些政府中许多政治平台的核心是针对社会上最弱势的成员的一系列新颖的社会计划和福利计划。在一个不平等的大陆上，这些减少贫困计划的形式一直是“新左派”政府所获得的受欢迎程度的核心基础。尽管这些社会计划将这些社会计划的中心地位授予“新左派”政府的政治项目，但我们对他们对他们的目标是如何理解和经验的人，他们对他们的目标是如何理解和经验。关于“新左派”的政策和政治已经写了很多，但是这种评论通常是两极分化的和矛盾的。对于某些人来说，在一段新自由主义的时期受到欢迎和庆祝之后，重新分配社会计划的出现，并且强调了贫困受益人之间的幸福感。对于其他人来说，这些计划似乎与民粹主义的上升潮流有可能破坏民主并削弱整个非洲大陆的自由机构。被认为违反贫困多数席位的利益的趋势。关注尼加拉瓜案，该奖学金旨在通过探索这些社会项目最直接影响最直接影响的人们的观点来超越这些两极分化的辩论。因为一件事很清楚：不仅是学者对这一高度政治化的社会计划表达强烈的感受。参与者自己（以及潜在的参与者）就项目的价值和目的发表了强有力的意见。确实，在许多组成“粉红色潮汐”的国家中，这些项目已成为农村和城市贫困人口激烈的政治活动的重点。基于对项目受益人的经验的仔细研究，奖学金将寻求对这些强烈的政治希望和愿望的理解，这些希望和愿望投入到新的左派对他们的成功和失败的社会项目上的影响。在这里，要追求的关键思想是，在理解政治主体的重叠的福利范围内，有很多值得获得的方式，这些福祉揭示了近距离的福利。如果“新左”社会项目的参与者投资那些对政治包容和承认作为公民的强大欲望的计划，那么了解为什么项目的结果确实需要理解并考虑到这种复杂的动态。通过朝这个方向提出步骤，该研究金旨在促进尼加拉瓜及其他地区“新左”社会福利计划的设计，交付和评估的改进。

项目成果

Grounding Rights

接地权

• DOI: 10.3167/sa.2018.620307
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Social Analysis
• 影响因子: 1.4
• 作者: Cooper D

Pentecostalism and the Peasantry: Domestic and Spiritual Economies in Rural Nicaragua

五旬节主义与农民：尼加拉瓜农村的家庭经济和精神经济

• DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2018.1510845
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Ethnos
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: Cooper D

A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism? Debating the Legacy of the Sandinista Revolution

尼加拉瓜例外论？

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Cooper, D