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dc.contributor.authorJahan, Ferdousen
dc.contributor.authorMamun?ur?Rashiden
dc.contributor.authorWahab, Sharif A.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-11T13:54:35Z
dc.date.available2016-01-11T13:54:35Z
dc.date.issued01/11/2015en
dc.identifier.citationJahan, F., Mamun?ur?Rashid and Wahab, S., A. (2015) The Role of Fatalism in Resilience to Food Price Volatility in Bangladesh. IDS Bulletin 46(6): 60-67en
dc.identifier.issn1759-5436en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/7763
dc.description.abstractMillions of people in Bangladesh suffer from hunger, unpredictable and unstable livelihoods, precarious living conditions and social injustice. Yet they survive and become resilient. However, the resilience achieved by the poor is minimal and incremental in nature and does not result in their wellbeing. Based on three years of qualitative research, this article attempts to understand the nature of and pathways to ‘resilience of the poor people'. The article argues that poor people's approach to ‘resilience’ is twofold. First, they perceive their poverty and associated problems as ‘Allah's will', with not much to be done about it. At the same time, they engage in continuous innovative practices to survive. These two worldviews together ('fatalism’ and ‘self?help') make the poor ‘resilient'. This also ‘partially’ explains the absence of strong activism, collective action and protests within a context of state failure (in terms of ensuring rights and entitlements to its citizens).en
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Bulletin Vol. 46 Nos. 6en
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen
dc.titleThe Role of Fatalism in Resilience to Food Price Volatility in Bangladeshen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1759-5436.12187en


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