Give a man a fish : reflections on the new politics of distribution / James Ferguson ; foreword by Thomas Gibson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cash transfers and the new Welfare States: from Neoliberalism to the politics of distribution -- Give a man a fish: from patriarchal productionism to the revalorization of distribution -- What comes after the social? Historicizing the future of social protection in Africa -- Distributed livelihoods: dependence and the labor of distribution in the lives of the Southern African poor (and not-so-poor) -- The social life of cash payments: money, markets, and the mutualities of poverty -- Declarations of dependence: labor, personhood, and welfare in Southern Africa -- A rightful share: distribution beyond gift and market -- What next for distributive politics?.