Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família
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| contents | Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família Talita Jabs Eger Arlei Sander Damo Antropología money morality anthropology public policy Bolsa Família (Family Grant) This paper brings some findings from research on the meanings of money from Brazil’s Family Grant Program (Programa Bolsa Família, PBF). The ethnography on which it is based was carried out between 2010 and 2012 in the cities of Alvorada and Porto Alegre. It shows, firstly, that even though it is received in cash, the PBF money is not just an abstract mediator. Rather, access to this kind of money, or to the PBF itself, is accompanied by a series of moral values that go beyond the legal conditionalities that characterize the program. Drawing on ethnographic instances, our discussion highlights some of the key elements of this morality: negotiations around the notion of vulnerability (a central concept for the social workers in charge of enrolling beneficiaries in the PBF), and the different meanings of the PBF money, from the beneficiaries’ point of view. This diversity of meanings is presented synthetically in terms of some key domains: money of women and for women; money of children and for children; money interdicted and shameful to men. 2014 artículo científico 1809-4341 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=406941917009 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4069 VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology application/pdf Associação Brasileira de Antropologia VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.11 |
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| spellingShingle | Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família Talita Jabs Eger Antropología money morality anthropology public policy Bolsa Família (Family Grant) Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família Talita Jabs Eger Arlei Sander Damo Antropología money morality anthropology public policy Bolsa Família (Family Grant) This paper brings some findings from research on the meanings of money from Brazil’s Family Grant Program (Programa Bolsa Família, PBF). The ethnography on which it is based was carried out between 2010 and 2012 in the cities of Alvorada and Porto Alegre. It shows, firstly, that even though it is received in cash, the PBF money is not just an abstract mediator. Rather, access to this kind of money, or to the PBF itself, is accompanied by a series of moral values that go beyond the legal conditionalities that characterize the program. Drawing on ethnographic instances, our discussion highlights some of the key elements of this morality: negotiations around the notion of vulnerability (a central concept for the social workers in charge of enrolling beneficiaries in the PBF), and the different meanings of the PBF money, from the beneficiaries’ point of view. This diversity of meanings is presented synthetically in terms of some key domains: money of women and for women; money of children and for children; money interdicted and shameful to men. 2014 artículo científico 1809-4341 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=406941917009 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4069 VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology application/pdf Associação Brasileira de Antropologia VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.11 |
| title | Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família |
| topic | Antropología money morality anthropology public policy Bolsa Família (Family Grant) |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=406941917009 |