Clark University, USA.
J Dev Stud. 2010;46(7):1304-26. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2010.487094.
The significance of social movements for pro-poor political and social change is widely acknowledged. Poverty reduction has assumed increasing significance within development debates, discourses and programmes - how do social movement leaders and activists respond? This paper explores this question through the mapping of social movement organisations in Peru and South Africa. We conclude that for movement activists 'poverty' is rarely a central concern. Instead, they represent their actions as challenging injustice, inequality and/or development models with which they disagree, and reject the simplifying and sectoral orientation of poverty reduction interventions. In today's engagement with the poverty-reducing state, their challenge is to secure resources and influence without becoming themselves subject to, or even the subjects of, the practices of government.
社会运动对于促进有利于穷人的政治和社会变革具有重要意义，这一点已得到广泛认可。减贫在发展辩论、讨论和方案中变得越来越重要——社会运动的领导者和积极分子如何应对？本文通过对秘鲁和南非的社会运动组织进行分析，探讨了这一问题。我们的结论是，对于运动积极分子来说，“贫困”很少是他们关注的核心问题。相反，他们将自己的行动描述为挑战不公正、不平等和/或他们不同意的发展模式，并拒绝简化和针对减贫干预措施的部门性。在今天与减贫国家的接触中，他们的挑战是在不使自己受制于政府行为，甚至成为政府行为的主体的情况下，争取资源和影响力。
