IDPM, University of Manchester, UK.
J Dev Stud. 2010;46(7):1139-55. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2010.487100.
Development trustees have increasingly sought to challenge chronic poverty by promoting citizenship amongst poor people, a move that frames citizenship formation as central to overcoming the exclusions and inequalities associated with uneven development. For sceptics, this move within inclusive neoliberalism is inevitably depoliticising and disempowering, and our cases do suggest that citizenship-based strategies rarely alter the underlying basis of poverty. However, our evidence also offers some support to those optimists who suggest that progressive moves towards poverty reduction and citizenship formation have become more rather than less likely at the current juncture. The promotion of citizenship emerges here as a significant but incomplete effort to challenge poverty that persists over time.
发展受托机构越来越多地寻求通过在贫困人口中倡导公民身份来挑战长期贫困问题，这一举措将公民身份的形成作为克服与不均衡发展相关的排斥和不平等的核心。对于怀疑论者来说，这种包容性新自由主义内部的举措必然会使政治失去活力和使权力丧失，而且我们的案例确实表明，基于公民身份的战略很少能改变贫困的根本基础。然而，我们的证据也为那些乐观主义者提供了一些支持，他们认为，在当前的关头，朝着减少贫困和形成公民身份的方向前进，更有可能而不是更不可能。在这里，倡导公民身份是对长期存在的贫困问题的一项重大但不完整的挑战。
