The relational dimension of the anti-poverty policy

Abstract

This paper presents the relational dimension that emerges between the State who manages poverty and the beneficiary, subject-object of that policy. When society is conceived as a set of relationships, it establishes a reciprocal relationship between who gives aid and who receives it. From the Individual´s subjectivity who takes part in anti-poverty programs, the reciprocity emerges from the relationship that the individual establishes with the significant “other” and its own “self”. Becoming a beneficiary of a capability program imposes self-work or a relational work that is a process that modifies the personal identity, due to that the individual conciliates the mandates of others with their own desires. In this process the "other" emerges as a "significant other", abstract or concrete form, who can facilitate or stress the individual´s management.