Pauvreté nationale et pauvreté mondiale dans l’âge du néolibéralisme

Abstract

AbstractExtreme poverty continues to be a major problem in contemporary India despite the fact that the poor are included in democratic politics and national sovereignty. I argue that Agamben’s concept of homo sacer better allows us to understand the fate of the poor, who can be killed without sacrifice, than Foucault’s idea of biopower. However, in recent years, the focus on poverty as a national phenomenon has been replaced with the idea of “global poverty”. What is surprising is that the interest in global poverty has arisen at the same time as neoliberal globalization has become hegemonic. The problem with “global poverty” is that it has a contextually thin understanding of poverty. Although the idea of “global poverty” has brought attention to poverty as a worldwide phenomenon, it has led to solutions that are not effective.