Aring, Mascha 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7111-7263, Reichardt, Ole, Katjizeu, Ewaldine Menjono, Luyanda, Brendan and Hulke, Carolin
(2021).
Collective Capacity to Aspire? Aspirations and Livelihood Strategies in the Zambezi Region, Namibia.
Eur. J. Dev. Res., 33 (4).
S. 933 - 951.
BASINGSTOKE:
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD.
ISSN 1743-9728
Abstract
This paper investigates rural development from a micro-level standpoint, focusing on individual and collective aspirations. We aim to deepen understanding of how a person's socio-economic environment shapes their aspirations and simultaneously how aspirations contribute to future-oriented actions. In combining concepts of sustainable livelihoods and aspirations with a context of 'ordinary uncertainties' (Pine, Ordinary uncertainties: remembering the past and imagining the future at times of rupture and mobility. In: Paper presented at the conference Rurality and Future-Making. Comparative Perspectives from Europe, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean, 22-24 May, Cologne, Germany, 2019), we discuss the role of individual and collective aspirations in developing livelihood strategies. Drawing on qualitative data from field research in Namibia's Zambezi region, we identify crucial factors that influence aspirations: multiple uncertainties, experiences, and role models. Access to diverse experiences and social exchange shapes future-oriented aspirations, and therefore needs to be included in rural development strategies that account for diversity within communities.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-573523 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41287-021-00412-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Eur. J. Dev. Res. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Volume: | 33 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 933 - 951 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date: | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Publication: | BASINGSTOKE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1743-9728 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57352 |
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