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Leslie Mccall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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economic Self Reliance and gender inequality between u s men and women 1970 2010
American Journal of Sociology, 2019Co-Authors: Deirdre Bloome, Derek Burk, Leslie MccallAbstract:Women have become increasingly economically Self-reliant, depending more on paid employment for their positions in the income distribution than in the past. We know little about what happened to men, however, because most prior research restricts changes in Self-Reliance to be “zero-sum,” with women’s changes necessitating opposite and proportionate changes among men. This article introduces a measure that allows asymmetric changes and also incorporates multiple population subgroups and income sources beyond couples’ labor earnings. Using Current Population Survey data, the authors find that women’s Self-Reliance increased dramatically, as expected, but men’s declined only slightly. The authors decompose these trends into changes in family structure and redistribution, which increased and decreased Self-Reliance, respectively, for men and women, though more for women. Labor market shifts, by contrast, were asymmetric and opposing, reducing men’s Self-Reliance much less than they increased women’s. The aut...
Diana Mincyte - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Self Reliance beyond neoliberalism rethinking autonomy at the edges of empire
Environment and Planning D-society & Space, 2014Co-Authors: Karen Hebert, Diana MincyteAbstract:Across scholarly and popular accounts, Self-Reliance is often interpreted as either the embodiment of individual entrepreneurialism, as celebrated by neoliberal designs, or the basis for communitarian localism, increasingly imagined as central to environmental and social sustainability. In both cases, Self-Reliance is framed as an antidote to the failures of larger state institutions or market economies. This paper offers a different framework for understanding Self-Reliance by linking insights drawn from agrarian studies to current debates on alternative economies. Through an examination of the social worlds of semisubsistence producers in peripheral zones in the Global North, we show how everyday forms of Self-Reliance are mutually constituted with states and markets, particularly through interactions with labor institutions and hybrid property regimes linking individual and collective interests. We draw on empirical data from two ethnographic case studies connected by a shared colonial history and continuing local mythologies of frontier Self-sufficiency: salmon fisheries in rural Alaska in the US, and agrofood economies in socialist and postsocialist Lithuania. In each site we find that although local expressions of Self-Reliance diverge in critical respects from neoliberal visions, these forms of everyday autonomy are nevertheless enlisted to promote market liberalization, ultimately threatening the very conditions that have long sustained semisubsistence producers� Self-Reliance in the first place.
Deirdre Bloome - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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economic Self Reliance and gender inequality between u s men and women 1970 2010
American Journal of Sociology, 2019Co-Authors: Deirdre Bloome, Derek Burk, Leslie MccallAbstract:Women have become increasingly economically Self-reliant, depending more on paid employment for their positions in the income distribution than in the past. We know little about what happened to men, however, because most prior research restricts changes in Self-Reliance to be “zero-sum,” with women’s changes necessitating opposite and proportionate changes among men. This article introduces a measure that allows asymmetric changes and also incorporates multiple population subgroups and income sources beyond couples’ labor earnings. Using Current Population Survey data, the authors find that women’s Self-Reliance increased dramatically, as expected, but men’s declined only slightly. The authors decompose these trends into changes in family structure and redistribution, which increased and decreased Self-Reliance, respectively, for men and women, though more for women. Labor market shifts, by contrast, were asymmetric and opposing, reducing men’s Self-Reliance much less than they increased women’s. The aut...
Naohiko Omata - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Kalobeyei Settlement: A Self-Reliance Model for Refugees?
Journal of Refugee Studies, 2020Co-Authors: Alexander Betts, Naohiko Omata, Olivier SterckAbstract:Abstract In 2016, the Kalobeyei refugee settlement was created, just 3.5 kilometres from the Kakuma camps in Kenya. In a departure from Kenya’s policy of not allowing refugees to work, its aim was to provide Self-Reliance to refugees and greater refugee–host interaction. But are refugee policies and programmes in Kalobeyei really different from those in Kakuma? If so, what are the differences? And do these differences actually translate into different Self-Reliance outcomes for refugees? Drawing upon a mixed-methods approach, we compare aid models, Self-Reliance enabling factors and Self-Reliance outcomes between Kalobeyei and Kakuma. After just 15 months, we find that Self-Reliance-enabling factors—such the environment, assets, networks, markets and public goods—remain similar across both sites and, in some cases, are better in Kakuma. The major differences between the sites are in the aid model: Kalobeyei’s cash-assistance and agricultural programmes. We find improved nutritional outcomes and a greater perception of autonomy in Kalobeyei, both of which may be attributable to differences in the aid models. These findings have implications for how we conceptualize the institutional design of Self-Reliance in Kalobeyei and elsewhere.
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panacea for the refugee crisis rethinking the promotion of Self Reliance for refugees
Third World Quarterly, 2018Co-Authors: Evan Eastoncalabria, Naohiko OmataAbstract:AbstractThis article provides a critical examination of the current extensive promotion of ‘Self-Reliance’ for refugees. The existing scholarship largely ignores the unsuccessful historical record ...
Aileen M Gariepy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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i m used to doing it by mySelf exploring Self Reliance in pregnancy
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018Co-Authors: B Mcnamara, Abigail S Cutler, Lisbet S Lundsberg, Holly Powell Kennedy, Aileen M GariepyAbstract:Self-Reliance (the need to rely on one’s own efforts and abilities) is cited as a potential coping strategy for decreased or absent social support during pregnancy. Little data exists on how women view Self-Reliance in pregnancy. We recruited women from urban, walk-in pregnancy testing clinics from June 2014–June 2015. Women aged 16 to 44 and at less than 24 weeks gestational age were eligible. Participants completed an enrollment survey and in-person, semi-structured interviews. We used framework analysis to identify key concepts and assess thematic relationships. Eighty-four English-speaking women completed qualitative interviews. Participants averaged 26 years of age and 7 weeks estimated gestational age. Most identified as Black (54%) or Hispanic (20%), were unemployed or homemakers (52%), unmarried (92%), and had at least one child (67%). Most did not intend to get pregnant (61%) and planned to continue their pregnancy and parent (65%). We identified Self-Reliance as a prevalent concept that almost half (48%) of participants discussed in relationship to their pregnancy. Self-Reliance in pregnancy consisted of several subthemes: 1) past experiences, 2) expectations of motherhood, 3) financial independence, 4) decision making, and 5) parenting. Self-Reliance is an important aspect of women’s reproductive lives and is threaded through women’s past and current thoughts, feelings, experiences and decisions about pregnancy. Women’s belief in their own Self-Reliance as well as a recognition of the limits of Self-Reliance merits further research, especially as a potential strategy to cope with decreased or absent social support during pregnancy.