Decentring Poverty, Reworking Government: Social Movements and States in the Government of Poverty
通过秘鲁和南非社会运动组织的案例，发现活动家很少将贫困作为核心议题，而是挑战不公、不平等和发展模式，并拒绝贫困干预的简化取向。
The significance of social movements for pro-poor political and social change is widely acknowledged. Poverty reduction has assumed increasing significance within development debates, discourses and programmes - how do social movement leaders and activists respond? This paper explores this question through the mapping of social movement organisations in Peru and South Africa. We conclude that for movement activists 'poverty' is rarely a central concern. Instead, they represent their actions as challenging injustice, inequality and/or development models with which they disagree, and reject the simplifying and sectoral orientation of poverty reduction interventions. In today's engagement with the poverty-reducing state, their challenge is to secure resources and influence without becoming themselves subject to, or even the subjects of, the practices of government.