Workshop of the „Arbeitskreis
Armutsforschung“,
Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft
October 14th/15th,
2005
Wallistrakt, Franziskanergasse 1,
3rd
Floor, Room 304
5020 Salzburg
Anmeldung
Friday, October 14th
CLEMENS SEDMAK
Welcome and Introduction
09.30 – 10.45
ALICE SINDZINGRE (45’ talk + 30’ discussion)
The Relationships between Institutions, Poverty and Growth in
Developing Countries: a Theoretical Approach
Coffee break
11.15 – 13.15
MARTINA KOPF (20’ talk)
Writing Poverty and the Troubles of Representation
GERALD HÖDL (20’ talk)
The Emergence of Poverty in Southern African Settler Societies.
Perceptions and Self-Perceptions
BIRGIT ENGLERT (20’ talk)
Poverty Alleviation and the Politics of Redistributive Land Reform in
Southern Africa
45’ discussion
Lunch break
14.15 – 15.15
ANDREAS MÜLLER (30’ talk + 30’ discussion)
Poverty and Access to "Justice-Making" Institutions
15.15 – 16.15
EVA NADAI (30’ talk + 30’ discussion)
Disempowerment? From „Regulating the Poor“ to „Activating“ Welfare
Coffee break
16.45 – 18.00
ELSE ØYEN (45’ talk + 30’ discussion)
Poverty Production in the Face of Institution Building for Poverty
Reduction and Empowerment of the Poor
ELISA STREULI (30’ talk + 30’ discussion)
Traditional Gender Arrangements in Working Poor Family Households:
Persistance Beyond all Economic Logic
10.00 – 11.00
BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE (30’ talk + 30’ discussion)
How the Institutions of Capitalism Create Poverty
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30
JUDITH LIEU (30’ talk + 30’ discussion)
The Bible, Empowerment and Institution
12.30 – 13.00
Final discussion
Speakers
BIRGIT ENGLERT, Mag. Dr., Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna.
BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE, Professor of Development Studies, Director of Queen Elizabeth House, Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
GERALD HÖDL, Dr., Historian and Lecturer at the University of Vienna.
MARTINA KOPF, Dr. Mag., Lecturer at the Institute of Africanistics, University of Vienna.
JUDITH LIEU, Professor of New Testament Studies, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King’s College London.
ANDREAS MÜLLER, Dr., Assistant at the Institute of Public International Law, European Law and International Relations, University of Innsbruck.
EVA NADAI, Prof. Dr., University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwestern Switzerland.
ELSE ØYEN, Professor, Scientific Director of the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), Past President of the International Social Science Council (ISSC).
ALICE SINDZINGRE, Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris) and Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Department of Economics, University of London.
ELISA STREULI, Dr., Sociologist, Lecturer and Professor at HPSA-BB, Hochschule für Pädagogik und Soziale Arbeit beider Basel, Departement Soziale Arbeit, basis (Basler Institut für Sozialforschung und Sozialplanung).
Motivation
Institutions are of vital importance in the lives of poor people – for at least three reasons: 1) poverty situations lead to a dependence from institutions as part of the poverty-driven loss of autonomy; 2) poverty and poverty alleviation is essentially linked with questions of access to institutions, especially institutions like the labour market, the health system, the legal system, educational institutions; 3) poverty is linked with institutions because institutions shape the discourse on “poverty”, regulate matters of dealing with poverty within a society, and influence the public debate on and image of poor people.
The concept of „empowerment“ has become a key term in poverty research, originally developed within the context of development theories and development cooperation. This concept expresses the conviction, that poverty alleviation is concerned with widening autonomy and the capability of making decisions, that this freedom to make decisions can be encouraged by external initiatives, that poverty is linked with power issues.
The conference explores the links between institutions and empowerment within the context of poverty research. How do institutions deal with poor people? Do institutions contribute to the empowering of poor people? How?