How men and women negotiate sociocultural relations in Asante matrilineage (<i>abusua</i>): an ethnographic-based discourse study

Puorideme, Dennis

doi:10.1080/17447143.2019.1629447

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“…Furthermore, the definitions of household at the (inter)national programme level tend to universalise a specific idea about the meaning of a household. As has been indicated in this paper and elsewhere, these definitions are thus removed from the everyday reality of the sociocultural relations and practices of Ghanaian society (Puorideme, 2018(Puorideme, , 2019 and therefore acquire an "artificial" quality when brought into the local community setting. Thus, it is difficult for local community members to comprehend the concept in the light of the programme.…”

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“Those who eat from one pot”: Constructing household as a social category in a cash transfer programme in Ghana

Puorideme

Christensen

2021

J of Intl Development

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Social categorisation is situated at the core of any modern attempt to govern or intervene in the social world. This paper investigates the construction of the concept of household in Ghana's official social statistics and its implications when implemented in the internationally co-organised cash transfer programme, the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme. The study is based on various literature, conceptual analysis and interviews with key stakeholders, including the LEAP programme authorities and focal persons in a local community. The findings indicate discrepancies between the category of household and the cultural setting it is meant to represent in the Ghanaian context.

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“Those who eat from one pot”: Constructing household as a social category in a cash transfer programme in Ghana

Puorideme

Christensen

2021

J of Intl Development

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“…This study demonstrates that the legitimation and rationalisation of the PMT instrument in official and public discursive domains are problematic and that its translation in the cultural domains of local families and communities is unintelligible. The cultural discourses (Shi-xu, 2014) of families and communities are complex in terms of sociocultural relations and kinship networks (Puorideme, 2019), and are irreducible to the statistical gaze and the division and re-categorisation practices of the PMT instrument. Consequently, the sociocultural domain affords the caregivers of programmed households a 'hidden space' to discursively contest and resist the PMT technology and the targeting practices of the LEAP CCT programme, which detaches individuals from everyday local families and communities practices and re-categorises them into programmed households to ensure cost-effectiveness and efficiency.…”

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‘dark side’ of the LEAP CCT programme in Ghana

Puorideme¹

2020

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Studies of social transfer targeting practices and mechanisms, including the proxy means test (PMT) instrument, have often assumed that the essential purpose of these mechanisms is to ensure fairness, cost-effectiveness and efficiency, yet there is limited consensus on their optimal performance. This article builds on recent studies of social transfer targeting practices in developing countries by providing a better interpretation of the power dynamics involved in ‘translating’ the PMT instrument at the intersection of official, public and cultural discourses. It is a Foucault-based study that combines ethnography and discourse studies to analyse the everyday actions and practices of programme officials and caregivers. This study demonstrates that officials legitimise and translate the PMT instrument, separate individuals from families, and constitute them as objects for governmental intervention to achieve efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The re-categorisation of family members into households ‘outside’ of everyday sociocultural relations and practices is contested and resisted, creating a complex system of power relationships around the PMT.

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Gender parity perspectives in Asia Pacific: a descriptive analysis of Philippine rheumatology conferences

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How men and women negotiate sociocultural relations in Asante matrilineage (abusua): an ethnographic-based discourse study

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

“Those who eat from one pot”: Constructing household as a social category in a cash transfer programme in Ghana

“Those who eat from one pot”: Constructing household as a social category in a cash transfer programme in Ghana

‘dark side’ of the LEAP CCT programme in Ghana

Gender parity perspectives in Asia Pacific: a descriptive analysis of Philippine rheumatology conferences

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