Abstract

HORNES, Martín. Plural meanings of state money: an ethnographic approach to social cash transfer programs. Runa [online]. 2020, vol.41, n.2, pp.125-142. ISSN 1851-9628.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/runa.v41i2.7964.

This article intends to address the multiple meanings that have the money transferred from the social cash transfer programs. For this purpose, will address the different social actors involved in the circuits of delivery of money policies: to) analyze the knowledge that mobilize the knowledge of experts in the design of public policies to grant certain meaning money transferred, and, b) us approximations to an experience of ethnographic approach around the implementation of a social program at the local level, to analyse the contentions of existing meanings between State local stakeholders in their implementation and rights holders households.

This journey will allow us to observe what we have called as the social production of money from money transfers: meanings of money produced from the relationship between the multiple actors involved, their knowledge and practices different.

Keywords : Cash transfers; Money; Social meanings; Knowledge; Social production.

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