Penny Vera-Sanso
Biographic Data
| ID | 169903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penny Vera-Sanso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penny |
| FAMILY NAME | Vera-Sanso |
| SIGNATURE | VERA-SANSO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3163-399X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Situating masculinity, labour migration and care over the life course in Lesotho: Foregrounding survivor bias in researching care
The literature on later-life care is dominated by a focus on women as carers and older people as receivers, not providers, of care, as well as the analytical disembedding of care from wider social and economic processes. We examine the experiences of care and caring of former labour migrants who had migrated from Lesotho to work in South Africa’s mines in order to examine how these have changed over their lives. The latter demanded the tying of e…
Will the SDGs and the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing Leave Older People Behind
Since the 1950s, multinational institutions have taken a number of positions towards population ageing and later life. In 1994, the World Bank (WB) saw population ageing as a crisis that needed ‘averting’. The United Nations (UN) approach evolved from the individualized, compassionate ageism of 1981 to a developmental, ‘society for all ages’, perspective in 2002. Yet the UN made comparatively little headway. In 2021 the UN launched its Decade of …
Ageing and Later Life: Unsettling Development Assumptions
This Special Issue brings into focus the topic of ageing and of older people, both of which have been neglected and/or narrowly addressed in development studies and policymaking. As such, this collection of articles seeks to unsettle some of the stereotypes that are commonplace in development debates that portray older people as frail, vulnerable, burdensome and passive. It does so by looking at the process of ageing and the lived experiences of …
Multiple shocks and slum household economies in South India
This research uses a fresh perspective to trace the impact of multiple economic, financial and environmental shocks on slum-dwellers in the South Indian city of Chennai from November 2008 to May 2009. It examines the effects of a concatenation of events scaled from the global to the local, consisting of economic shocks (speculation in financial, fuel and food markets) and extremes of rainfall and temperature, on a cross-section of the urban poor …
Whose Money is it?‘: On Misconceiving Female Autonomy and Economic Empowerment in Low-income Households
Policies and projects aimed at empowering women by giving them direct allocation of resources have been criticised for failing to meet their objectives or of being detrimental to women’s strategic gender interests. I will argue that the slip between intention and outcome is rooted in three assumptions: first, that individuals have clear title to their earnings, second, that the primary structuring of markets is not social and, third, that taking …
Conformity and Contestation: Social Heterogeneity in South Indian Settlements
The significance of neighbourhood reputations for the economic and social status of residents makes neighbourhoods a highly contested domain. This chapter explores two arenas of contestation: neighbourhood boundaries and struggles over which residents ‘really belong’. The criterion of belonging discussed here is family conformity with the values by which a locality strives to be identified. Assertions of neighbourhood boundaries and of conformity…
Increasing consumption, decreasing support: A multi-generational study of family relations among South Indian Chakkliyars
This article looks at intergenerational relations in two Chakkliyar neighbourhoods in rural Tamil Nadu. Post-1991 economic changes, together with longer-term changes in the rural economy and state policies, have significantly widened the customary 'needs gap' between younger and older generations by expanding the needs and aspirations of younger generations both absolutely and in comparison to the perceived needs of older people, whilst not provi…
‘They Don’t Need It, and I Can’t Give It’: Filial Support in South India
Chapter 3 ‘They Don’t Need It, and I Can’t Give It’: Filial Support in South India
Masculinity, Male Domestic Authority and Female Labour Participation in South India
Dominant Daughters-in-Law and Submissive Mothers-in-Law? Cooperation and Conflict in South India
The stereotype of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relations in India is that of a dominating mother-in-law and submissive daughter-in-law.However, residents of low-income settlements in Chennai (formerly called Madras) argue that daughters-in-law no longer submit to the demands and wishes of their mothers-in-law as they do in rural Tamil Nadu, a South Indian state of which Chennai is the capital.Rather than being culturally determined, relation…
Dominant Daughters-in-Law and Submissive Mothers-in-Law? Cooperation and Conflict in South India
The stereotype of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relations in India is that of a dominating mother-in-law and submissive daughter-in-law.However, residents of low-income settlements in Chennai (formerly called Madras) argue that daughters-in-law no longer submit to the demands and wishes of their mothers-in-law as they do in rural Tamil Nadu, a South Indian state of which Chennai is the capital.Rather than being culturally determined, relation…
Multiple shocks and slum household economies in South India
This research uses a fresh perspective to trace the impact of multiple economic, financial and environmental shocks on slum-dwellers in the South Indian city of Chennai from November 2008 to May 2009. It examines the effects of a concatenation of events scaled from the global to the local, consisting of economic shocks (speculation in financial, fuel and food markets) and extremes of rainfall and temperature, on a cross-section of the urban poor …
Increasing consumption, decreasing support: A multi-generational study of family relations among South Indian Chakkliyars
This article looks at intergenerational relations in two Chakkliyar neighbourhoods in rural Tamil Nadu. Post-1991 economic changes, together with longer-term changes in the rural economy and state policies, have significantly widened the customary 'needs gap' between younger and older generations by expanding the needs and aspirations of younger generations both absolutely and in comparison to the perceived needs of older people, whilst not provi…
Masculinity, Male Domestic Authority and Female Labour Participation in South India
Whose Money is it?‘: On Misconceiving Female Autonomy and Economic Empowerment in Low-income Households
Policies and projects aimed at empowering women by giving them direct allocation of resources have been criticised for failing to meet their objectives or of being detrimental to women’s strategic gender interests. I will argue that the slip between intention and outcome is rooted in three assumptions: first, that individuals have clear title to their earnings, second, that the primary structuring of markets is not social and, third, that taking …
Ageing and Later Life: Unsettling Development Assumptions
This Special Issue brings into focus the topic of ageing and of older people, both of which have been neglected and/or narrowly addressed in development studies and policymaking. As such, this collection of articles seeks to unsettle some of the stereotypes that are commonplace in development debates that portray older people as frail, vulnerable, burdensome and passive. It does so by looking at the process of ageing and the lived experiences of …
Dominant Daughters-in-Law and Submissive Mothers-in-Law? Cooperation and Conflict in South India
The stereotype of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relations in India is that of a dominating mother-in-law and submissive daughter-in-law.However, residents of low-income settlements in Chennai (formerly called Madras) argue that daughters-in-law no longer submit to the demands and wishes of their mothers-in-law as they do in rural Tamil Nadu, a South Indian state of which Chennai is the capital.Rather than being culturally determined, relation…
Masculinity, Male Domestic Authority and Female Labour Participation in South India
‘They Don’t Need It, and I Can’t Give It’: Filial Support in South India
Chapter 3 ‘They Don’t Need It, and I Can’t Give It’: Filial Support in South India
Conformity and Contestation: Social Heterogeneity in South Indian Settlements
The significance of neighbourhood reputations for the economic and social status of residents makes neighbourhoods a highly contested domain. This chapter explores two arenas of contestation: neighbourhood boundaries and struggles over which residents ‘really belong’. The criterion of belonging discussed here is family conformity with the values by which a locality strives to be identified. Assertions of neighbourhood boundaries and of conformity…
Increasing consumption, decreasing support: A multi-generational study of family relations among South Indian Chakkliyars
This article looks at intergenerational relations in two Chakkliyar neighbourhoods in rural Tamil Nadu. Post-1991 economic changes, together with longer-term changes in the rural economy and state policies, have significantly widened the customary 'needs gap' between younger and older generations by expanding the needs and aspirations of younger generations both absolutely and in comparison to the perceived needs of older people, whilst not provi…
Whose Money is it?‘: On Misconceiving Female Autonomy and Economic Empowerment in Low-income Households
Policies and projects aimed at empowering women by giving them direct allocation of resources have been criticised for failing to meet their objectives or of being detrimental to women’s strategic gender interests. I will argue that the slip between intention and outcome is rooted in three assumptions: first, that individuals have clear title to their earnings, second, that the primary structuring of markets is not social and, third, that taking …
Multiple shocks and slum household economies in South India
This research uses a fresh perspective to trace the impact of multiple economic, financial and environmental shocks on slum-dwellers in the South Indian city of Chennai from November 2008 to May 2009. It examines the effects of a concatenation of events scaled from the global to the local, consisting of economic shocks (speculation in financial, fuel and food markets) and extremes of rainfall and temperature, on a cross-section of the urban poor …
Situating masculinity, labour migration and care over the life course in Lesotho: Foregrounding survivor bias in researching care
The literature on later-life care is dominated by a focus on women as carers and older people as receivers, not providers, of care, as well as the analytical disembedding of care from wider social and economic processes. We examine the experiences of care and caring of former labour migrants who had migrated from Lesotho to work in South Africa’s mines in order to examine how these have changed over their lives. The latter demanded the tying of e…
Will the SDGs and the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing Leave Older People Behind
Since the 1950s, multinational institutions have taken a number of positions towards population ageing and later life. In 1994, the World Bank (WB) saw population ageing as a crisis that needed ‘averting’. The United Nations (UN) approach evolved from the individualized, compassionate ageism of 1981 to a developmental, ‘society for all ages’, perspective in 2002. Yet the UN made comparatively little headway. In 2021 the UN launched its Decade of …
Ageing and Later Life: Unsettling Development Assumptions
This Special Issue brings into focus the topic of ageing and of older people, both of which have been neglected and/or narrowly addressed in development studies and policymaking. As such, this collection of articles seeks to unsettle some of the stereotypes that are commonplace in development debates that portray older people as frail, vulnerable, burdensome and passive. It does so by looking at the process of ageing and the lived experiences of …
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (3 works)