Jakimow, T. (2012) Serious Games in Livelihood Analysis: Reflections from the Case of Agricultural Wage Labourers in Andhra Pradesh. Journal of Development Studies, 48 (9). pp. 1274-1287.
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Abstract
This article presents an approach to anticipating future livelihood portfolios through Sherry Ortner’s model of ‘serious games’. The value of the model is to draw attention to the (always shifting) purposes and intentions that direct people’s lives, within a social, cultural and material context that differentially constrains and enables. Power is central to the approach, and to the understanding of processes of social reproduction and transformation. I use the model of serious games to examine the proposition that agricultural labour will become less important in the diverse livelihood portfolios of the rural poor in Telangana region, Andhra Pradesh, India.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This research was made possible through an Endeavour Research Fellowship from the Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations, Australian government, and additional funding from The Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Agricultural Wage Labourers, Andhra Pradesh |
| Author Affiliation: | School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr Siva Shankar |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2012 07:17 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2012 07:17 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2012.682988 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/8297 |
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