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Turning the poor rich: how the naming of middle class in Africa reshapes global perceptions of poverty and international development assistance processes

hal.structure.identifierLes Afriques dans le monde [LAM]
dc.contributor.authorDARBON, Dominique
dc.date.created2013-06-27
dc.date.conference2013-06-27
dc.description.abstractEnMiddle classes in Africa are an elusive reality. On the one hand there are clear signs in a number of African countries of the rise of an increasing number of people mainly in urban areas that are now living beyond the poverty line. Those groups of population may not stand as a "middle class" as such. However they are involved in clear processes of social promotion, they manage to invest and reap some benefits from those investments allowing them to enter into a "limited prosperity" (xiao kang : they are no longer poor but are too close to poverty to feel secured ), they adopt new live styles and cherish new hopes of a better life. On the other hand this group is still very much theoretical and elusive and closer to a statistical object than to a social fact. "Middle class in Africa" is very much part of a naming and branding process through which a large range of actors contribute to materialized it. There is neither pure rationality, nor global plot, nor pure domination by "epistemic communities", international organisations or think tanks behind it. However a complex set of actors interacting actors contributes to reshape the understanding of poverty and its relation to development and development assistance. The middle class issue is thus part of a wider move to shape new perceptions of poverty and the means to fight it.
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectSociologie politique
dc.subjectSociété
dc.subjectClasses moyennes
dc.subjectGroupe social
dc.subjectPauvreté
dc.subjectDéveloppement
dc.subjectAide internationale
dc.subjectAfrique
dc.title.enTurning the poor rich: how the naming of middle class in Africa reshapes global perceptions of poverty and international development assistance processes
dc.typeCommunication dans un congrès
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie
bordeaux.countryPT
bordeaux.conference.cityLisbonne
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhalshs-00907064
hal.version1
hal.invitednon
hal.proceedingsnon
hal.conference.end2013-06-29
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceNon spécifiée
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//halshs-00907064v1
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