The livelihood approach: a critical exploration
Abstract: The livelihood approach is an important actor-oriented perspective in development studies, including geography of development, which strongly influenced development oriented research and development practice. This paper deals with the original outlines of that approach and its subsequent critique and evolution. It discusses the basics of the original livelihood approach in its development cooperation context around the turn of the millennium. Both its broader popularity in academic research and the initial critique it met are explained. The neglect of power relations was an important flaw of the initial livelihood approach. The paper demonstrates how the following generation of livelihood studies managed to come to grip with that shortcoming and how it developed an understanding of the operation of power in livelihood strategies that can effectively contribute to livelihood enhancement. Finally, this paper criticises current livelihood research for limiting itself to the production.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2715
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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The livelihood approach: a critical exploration ; volume:66 ; number:4 ; year:2012
Erdkunde ; 66, Heft 4 (2012)
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de Haan, Leo
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10.3112/erdkunde.2012.04.05
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281803001.789822229607
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