The Power of Labelling: How People are Categorized and Why It Matters / Edition 1

by Rosalind Eyben, Joy Moncrieffe

Overview

This timely book tackles the critical and controversial issue of how people are labelled and categorized, and how their problems are framed and dealt with by a variety of actors, including development policy makers, practitioners and researchers. Importantly, one of the book's principal objectives is to suggest how policy makers and professionals can tackle negative forms of labelling and encourage processes of 'counter-labelling', to enhance poverty reduction and human rights, and to tackle issues of race relations and global security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844073955
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Edition description:	1
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Joy Moncrieffe is a political sociologist and Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, UK).

Rosalind Eyben is a development social scientist at IDS with a career in international development policy and practice, and editor of Relationships for Aid (2006).

Table of Contents

Introduction. Labelling, Power and Accountability: How and Why Our Categories Matter * Labels, Welfare Regimes and Intermediation: Contesting Formal Power * Labelling People for Aid * The Politics of Representing the Poor * Disjunctures in Labelling Refugees and Oustees * When Labels Stigmatize: Encounters with Street Children and Restavecs in Haiti * Poverty as a Spectator Sport * Muslim Women and Moderate Muslims : British Policy and the Strengthening of Religious Absolutist Control over Gender Development * Black Umbrellas: Labelling and Articulating Development in the Indonesian Mass Media * Labelling Works : The Language and Politics of Caste and Tribe in India * Exploring the Intersection of Racial Labels, Rainbow Citizenship and Citizens Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa * Afterword: Changing Practice * Index