Livelihoods, capitals and livelihood trajectories

Tara van Dijk
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Tara van Dijk: Amsterdam Institute of Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Progress in Development Studies, 2011, vol. 11, issue 2, 101-117

Abstract: To move urban livelihoods approaches beyond description to strategic action, its core concepts of livelihoods, capitals and livelihood outcomes (termed here as trajectories) need a more comprehensive and sociological conceptualisation. First, social structures are unpacked to show how livelihoods need to be thought of in terms of livelihood arrangements. Then, the problems with the present use of capitals, assets and resources (CARs) are discussed and their substantive, relational–contingent and embodied aspects outlined. Lastly, the article sketches a Sayer–Bourdieuian inspired approach.

Keywords: livelihoods; capitals; inequality and livelihood trajectories (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/146499341001100202

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