Graciela Mamani-Vargas
Biographic Data
| ID | 113057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graciela Mamani-Vargas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graciela |
| FAMILY NAME | Mamani-Vargas |
| SIGNATURE | MAMANI-VARGAS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fundación PROINPA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
It really saves us’ versus ‘it doesn't cover everything’
Non-contributory pensions have become extremely popular in the last decade, with 78 developing countries currently distributing money in this way, and their acclaimed impacts are increasingly celebrated. Studies have found them to contribute not only to ‘obvious’ needs such as increased consumption and income security but also to investments in productivity, social relationships, health, increased access to credit and savings, while it has become…
The Coercive Side of Collective Capabilities
Theorists have critiqued the individualism at the heart of Sen’s capabilities approach, and have advocated the concept of “collective capabilities” to better understand the role of social institutions in influencing human flourishing and freedom. However, the extent to which collective capabilities are complementary to, or in tension with individual ones has been under-researched. This paper explores the relationship between collective and indivi…
Are Markets Moral
Ethnographic research has established the centrality of markets to Andean rural livelihoods, but understandings of fairness and different market actors’ power relations in these markets are less clear. Using ten months of ethnographic research in Bolivia’s Altiplano, this case study reveals strategies and moral narratives of peasant producers and market traders in an emerging pea market. While traders attempt to deceive producers, the latter have…
The Coercive Side of Collective Capabilities
Theorists have critiqued the individualism at the heart of Sen’s capabilities approach, and have advocated the concept of “collective capabilities” to better understand the role of social institutions in influencing human flourishing and freedom. However, the extent to which collective capabilities are complementary to, or in tension with individual ones has been under-researched. This paper explores the relationship between collective and indivi…
Are Markets Moral
Ethnographic research has established the centrality of markets to Andean rural livelihoods, but understandings of fairness and different market actors’ power relations in these markets are less clear. Using ten months of ethnographic research in Bolivia’s Altiplano, this case study reveals strategies and moral narratives of peasant producers and market traders in an emerging pea market. While traders attempt to deceive producers, the latter have…
The Coercive Side of Collective Capabilities
Theorists have critiqued the individualism at the heart of Sen’s capabilities approach, and have advocated the concept of “collective capabilities” to better understand the role of social institutions in influencing human flourishing and freedom. However, the extent to which collective capabilities are complementary to, or in tension with individual ones has been under-researched. This paper explores the relationship between collective and indivi…
It really saves us’ versus ‘it doesn't cover everything’
Non-contributory pensions have become extremely popular in the last decade, with 78 developing countries currently distributing money in this way, and their acclaimed impacts are increasingly celebrated. Studies have found them to contribute not only to ‘obvious’ needs such as increased consumption and income security but also to investments in productivity, social relationships, health, increased access to credit and savings, while it has become…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Livelihood (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Business (1 work)