Conference Session Papers |
Day One
March 26, 2007 | Day Two
March 27, 2007 | Day Three
March 28, 2007 |
Welcome and Keynote Addresses | Invisible Burdens: Unpaid Work and Working Women | Governance, Power and Vulnerability at the Margins |
>Capital and Labour from Centre to Margins - Henry Bernstein >Conceptualising Economic Marginalisation - Ravi Kanbur >The Working Poor in the Informal Economy - Marty Chen | >How Valuing Unpaid Work Helps Us to Understand Structural Determinants of Marginalization and Poverty -Claudio Santibanez >Living in the Background -Donna Doane >Women and Multiple Vulnerabilities -Bipasha Baruah | >States and Informality - Jo Beall >The Textures of Urban Informality in Africa - Abdoumaliq Simone |
Thinking the Margins: Beyond Dualism | Globalization, Informalization and Migrancy | The Margins and the Centre: Power, Informality and Poverty in Urban Settings |
>In Search of South Africa's Second Economy - Andries du Toit & David Neves >The Limits of Dualism - James Heintz > The State and the Informal in Sub-Saharan African Urban Economies Deborah Potts | >Global Peddlers and Local Networks: Producing Cosmopolitanism on the Margins - Uma Kothari >Informal Globalization or Global Informalization? -Joris Verschueren >Migrant and Contract Labour in Global Production Systems - Stephanie Barrientos | >Class, Formality and Poverty Reduction - Diana Mitlin >'Positive' Urban Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa - Mirjam van Donk >Security Shelter in the Shadow of Violence - Gayatri Menon |
The State at the Margins: Poverty, Inequality and Informality | Vulnerability at the Margins | Livelihoods at the Margins: Urban Streets |
>Linking Informality and Chronic Poverty - Armando Barrientos >Poverty and the Developmental State: Realising 'Third Generation Rights' at the Urban and Regional Scale - Sue Parnell & Edgar Pieterse | >Buckling-The Impact of HIV/AIDS - Hein Marais >Paid and Unpaid Care Work - Francie Lund | >Indispensable Livelihoods Wiped Out? The Case of Street Vending in Zomba - Happy Kayuni & Richard Tambulasi >Street Vending in Dar es Salaam - Colman Msoka >Synchronicities and Mismatches: Urban Planning, Policy and Practice Towards Street Traders in Durban - Caroline Skinner |
The Margins and the Centre: Informality and Inequality | The Margins and the Centre: The State Versus The Unregulated | Governance and Power: Planning, Participation and Informality |
>Informalization, Poverty and Inequality in Kinshasa - Tom De Herdt & Wim Marivoet >Poverty and Inequality in South Africa - Jean Triegaardt >Second Best? Trends and Linkages in the Informal Economy - Imraan Valodia, Richard Devey & Caroline Skinner | >An Analysis of the Effects of the State's Ban on Minibus Call-Boys in Malawi - Richard Tambulasi & Happy Kayuni
>The Impact of Operation Murambatsvina - Tendai Mugara >Street Vending in Post Operation Murambatsvina Harare - Kudakwashe Manganga | >On the Margins of 'The Economy' - Colin Marx >Seeking to Participate: State and Street Vendors in Caracas Ruth - Maria Fernanda Garcia |
Livelihoods at the Margins | Livelihoods at the Margins: Agrarian Pathways | Additional Conference Papers |
>Hierarchy of Ties in Exchange - Bino Paul & Sony Pellissery >Social Exclusion and Artisanal Mining - Rosemarie Mwaipopo & Eleanor Fisher >Spatial Dichotomies and the Realities of Everyday Practice - Patrick McAllister | >Band-Aid, Banditry or Bricolage? Cattle Production in the Borderlands of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa - Andrew Ainslie >Cashing in or Crashing out - Stephen Devereux >Vernacular Land Markets and Rural Poverty - Admos Chimhowu & Phil Woodhouse >Vulnerability, Marginalisation and the State - Barbara Tapela | > Farms Came to the People - Lisa Del Grande > Migration, Legal Status and Poverty: Evidence from Return to Ghana - Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Claudia Natali and Richard Black |
Marginality and Vulnerability: Disability, Poverty and Occupation | Marginality and Vulnerability: Social Protection at the Margins | |
>Chronic Poverty, Disability and Occupational Deprivation - Ruth Watson & Madeleine Duncan >From the Margins: A Web of Possibilities for Disabled Women - Theresa Lorenzo >Occupation: A Helpful Way of Viewing What People Do Every Day - Marion Fourie
| >Lines in the Sand - Sunil Kumar >Poverty, Gender and the Disability Grant in South Africa - Beth Goldblatt >Remittances, Poverty Reduction and Informalisation of Household Wellbeing in Zimbabwe - Sarah Bracking & Lloyd Sachikonye | |
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