Presented at Stream 8, Towards inclusive development?

Leicester, United Kingdom

July 2015

Turning on the township: A contemporary

genealogy of financial inclusion in

South Africa

Graunt Kruger and Louise Whittaker

Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand,

Johannesburg, South Africa

Agenda1. A Conceptual Framework

Informed by the Work of

Michel Foucault

2. A Contemporary Genealogy

as Research Method

3. Findings and Discussion

– Points of Discontinuity

– Turning to Points of

Continuity

– Implications: Beyond the

boundary

4. Conclusions and

contributions

Michel Foucault

1926-1984

Foucault in Rabinow, P. (1991). The Foucault Reader. London: Penguin Social Sciences. Page

6. Photograph copyright: http://www.michel-foucault.com/gallery/pictures/foucault08.html

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Abstract

“Roughly a little under half of the world’s population is mired

in poverty, most in the developing world— about 3 billion

people constitute the global base of the economic pyramid.

Building on earlier work by Banerjee and Duflo (2007), this

paper uses survey data from three countries in order to provide

a clear visualization of the spatial dimension of the economic

lives of the poor and their access to markets. It develops a

framework that could be used to map market inclusiveness, and

then applies this to a number of markets that are critical to

reducing poverty and increasing human welfare: water, credit

and telecommunications. These ‘‘market heat maps’’ help to

illustrate the extent of the challenges and in some cases

reveal potential opportunities in growing more inclusive

markets for the poor.”

Mama Thembi: “I don’t

want to be poor.”

ZeGa Club

Are subject positions imposed or locally

created?

Points of discontinuity

Where do problems and the strategic actions

to solve them originate?

Points of discontinuity

What forms of control are created?

Points of discontinuity

Points of continuity

Implications: Beyond the

boundary

Thank you.

Graunt Kruger and Louise Whittaker

graunt@gmail.com