James Ferguson is Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order and the coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both also published by Duke University Press.

Foreword / Thomas Gibson vii

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. Cash Transfers and the New Welfare States: From Neoliberalism to the Politics of Distribution 1

1. Give a Man a Fish: From Patriarchal Productionism to the Revalorization of Distribution 35

2. What Comes after the Social? Historicizing the Future of Social Protection in Africa 63

3. Distributed Livelihoods: Dependence and the Labor of Distribution in the Lives of the Southern African Poor (and Not-So-Poor) 89

4. The Social Life of Cash Payments: Money, Markets, and the Mutualities of Poverty 119

5. Declaration of Dependence: Labor, Pesonhood, and Welfare in Southern Africa 141

6. A Rightful Share: Distribution beyond Gift and Market 165

Conclusion. What Next for Distributive Politics? 191

Notes 217

References 237

Index  259

James Ferguson is Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order and the coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both also published by Duke University Press.