[Anthropgrad] Panel on poverty to power

[Patrick Kilby]

Public Lecture
>From Poverty to Power	
The classic view that poverty is just a shortage of income may be well
established in our minds, but ultimately as Amartya Sen says it is "lack
of freedom(s)". People remain disempowered as a result of a variety of
complex processes. But no matter how deprivation develops the gross
asymmetries do not simply address themselves but only by social action
of affected communities. Duncan Green and the panel will explore the
ways in which poverty is fought through the empowerment of people whose
marginalisation is related to global decisions by powerful states and
institutions. Green argues for active citizenship as an effective way of
seeking and securing solutions for the pervasive problems of
powerlessness and marginalisation, the key social elements of poverty.
Green will draw on the experience of Oxfam International and the
organisations it supports to argue that it is the combination of active
citizens and effective states that can best address inequality in the
world today. This seminar will provide and opportunity for an
exploration of these important issues with Duncan Green and ANU
academics. 

Panellists: 

Duncan Green, Head of Research at Oxfam Great Britain and author of From
Poverty to Power. 

Professor Robin Jeffrey, Dean of the ANU College of Asia and the
Pacific; Director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
ANU. 

Professor Raghbendra Jha, Professor of Economics and Deputy Convener,
The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics; Executive Director, Australia
South Asia Research Centre, ANU. 

Professor Francesca Merlan, Professor of Anthropology, ANU 



Speaker/Host: 	Duncan Green	
Venue: 	Spark Helmore Theatre 1 - Law School	
Date: 	Thursday, 28 August 2008	
Time: 	10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	
Enquiries: 	Dr Patrick Kilby <mailto:patrick.kilby at anu.edu.au>  on
61254041