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Institutional Feminist Networks and Their “Poor”: Localizing Transnational Interventions
Author(s) -
Schild Verónica
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
latin american policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2041-7373
pISSN - 2041-7365
DOI - 10.1111/lamp.12043
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , politics , psychological intervention , intervention (counseling) , field (mathematics) , inequality , political science , feminism , gender studies , sociology , political economy , law , psychology , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , mathematics , psychiatry , pure mathematics
Empowering poor women through a rights‐based agenda of intervention in the social field has been a central goal of transnational institutional feminist politics. This essay focuses on the effects of professional and academic feminist networks in antipoverty policy. A renewed concern with the “poor” has contributed to the political regulation of increasing inequality, spatial dislocations, and marginality associated with global capitalist strategies of accumulation. I argue that how we define and act institutionally on “the poor” has been radically altered through the effects of feminist innovations, which are far reaching for projects of adapting societies to the present model of capitalist accumulation. I develop this critical argument through an analysis of C onditional C ash Transfer Programs in L atin A merica, with special attention to the case of C hile.