Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família

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 re...

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Publicado no:VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
Main Authors: Talita Jabs Eger, Arlei Sander Damo
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia 2014
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Antropología
money
morality
anthropology
public policy
Bolsa Família (Family Grant)
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spelling redalyc-4069419170092019-08-14T05:00:00Z 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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topic Antropología
money
morality
anthropology
public policy
Bolsa Família (Family Grant)
spellingShingle Antropología
money
morality
anthropology
public policy
Bolsa Família (Family Grant)
Talita Jabs Eger
Arlei Sander Damo
Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família
description 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.
author Talita Jabs Eger
Arlei Sander Damo
author_facet Talita Jabs Eger
Arlei Sander Damo
author_sort Talita Jabs Eger
title Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família
title_short Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família
title_full Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família
title_fullStr Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família
title_full_unstemmed Money and Morality in the Bolsa Família
title_sort money and morality in the bolsa família
publisher Associação Brasileira de Antropologia
container_title VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
publishDate 2014
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=406941917009
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