Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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Poverty, Shame and Ethics in Contemporary China
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)Taking China as a critical case, this article questions recent literature that asserts that shame attached to poverty is both ubiquitous and always problematic. In China, the concepts of shame, loss of face, lian (integrity) ... -
Getting by in New York City: Bonding, Bridging and Linking Capital in Poverty-Impacted Neighborhoods
(SAGE, 2019)A lack or low level of social capital is associated with negative outcomes for communities impacted by poverty. However, less is known about how different types of social capital operate on the ground in poverty–impacted ... -
"Feeling Less Than a Second Class Citizen": Examining the Emotional Consequences of Poverty in New York City
(SAGE, 2018)It has been argued that individuals living in poverty are shamed, and thus, experience it in various social and institutional spaces. However, little is known about this dynamic in the United States. This study examined ... -
Shame, Face and Social Relations in Northern China: Ramifications for Social Assistance Provision
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)While it is increasingly recognized that shame is a pernicious component of the experience of poverty, the stigma generally associated with social assistance provision is less marked with respect to China's Minimum Living ... -
Changing Women's Lives and Livelihoods: Motorcycle Taxis in Rural Liberia and Sierra Leone
(Institution of Civil Engineers, 2020)In rural Liberia and Sierra Leone about half of motorcycle taxi passengers are female, with this proportion increasingon market days. However, all motorcycle taxi operators in rural areas are male. This study assessed if ... -
Rationalizing Poverty in New York: Tales from the Middle Class
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Although poverty rates in the US are among the highest in the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), there is limited public support for a new war on poverty and persistent opposition of the provision ... -
Evolving Social Capital and Networks in the Post-disaster Rebuilding Process: The case of Typhoon Yolanda
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020)Typhoon Yolanda brought major devastation to the local communities and infrastructure and also reshaped social structures and networks in the Philippines. During the immediate recovery process, bridging, bonding and linking ... -
Typhoon Yolanda and Post-disaster Resilience: Problems and Challenges
(John Wiley & Sons, 2019)After Typhoon Yolanda devastated the Philippines, ‘resilient’ was a term frequently used by the media, survivors, government officials and various other stakeholders in the city of Tacloban to describe those affected by ... -
Bloated Bodies and Broken Bricks: Power, Ecology, and Inequality in the Political Economy of Natural Disaster Recovery
(Elsevier, 2018)Disaster recovery efforts form an essential component of coping with unforeseen events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and typhoons, some of which will only become more frequent or severe in the face of accelerated ... -
Post Disaster Social Capital: Trust, Equity, Bayanihan and Typhoon Yolanda
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of disaster rehabilitation interventions on bonding social capital in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda. Design/methodology/approach: The data from the project is drawn ... -
Reimagining Police Engagement? Kenya National Police Service on Social Media
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Official police use of social media for public engagement is a relatively new phenomenon on the African continent and the Kenya National Police Service (NPS) is at the forefront of this trend. Drawing on a combination of ... -
Social media warfare and Kenya's conflict with Al Shabaab in Somalia: A right to know?
(Oxford University Press, 2019)This article explores Kenyan citizens’ right to know details about sensitive security-related information in the context of a new era of social media warfare. It considers the public communications response to Al Shabaab’s ... -
Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
(Zed, 2019)Demonstrates how social media is transforming political engagement in Africa using unique case studies from across the region. -
Social Network Research in Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2019)Social network approaches have much to offer for the study of African politics. This research note explores the tensions and benefits of using social networks as metaphor or as method, and highlights the types of questions ... -
Beyond Jobs vs Environment: On the Potential of Universal Basic Income to Reconfigure Environmental Politics
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020)The tension between creating jobs and protecting the environment remains central to contemporary environmental politics. Critical scholars have reworked the “jobs vs the environment” problematique, but how people will ... -
Gender, Social Networks, and Conflict
(University of Kent, 2019)War is an inherently social process, from the mobilization of new, armed organizations, to the relational aftershocks of violence affecting families and local communities. This essay synthesizes existing feminist research ... -
Day Zero and The Infrastructures of Climate Change: Water Governance, Inequality, and Infrastructural Politics in Cape Town's Water Crisis
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2020)From 2015 to 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, was marked by fears of a water crisis in which the city's taps threatened to run dry. We argue in this article that Cape Town's crisis of water scarcity was a product of the ... -
Getting Soaked? Climate Crisis, Adaptation Finance, and Racialized Austerity
(SAGE, 2019)As the effects of austerity continue to ravage cities and the impacts of climate change become more pronounced, municipal officials around the world are struggling to pay for climate adaptation. Some cities have already ... -
Pedagogical Case Study: Creating jobs and responsibilizing households in South African Waste Management
(SUPE Collective, 2019)Over the last decade, all spheres of government in South Africa have launched programmes that seek to reframe waste not as a burden but rather as an economic opportunity, a form of decent work, and a civic duty. From ... -
Turning Livelihoods to Rubbish? Policy Brief
(SUPE Collective, 2019)In the context of high unemployment and growing volumes of waste volumes, more and more people and institutions are looking to waste management as a way to create jobs and improve the environment. This is quite a shift ...