Impact Initiative - Livelihoods: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"Right to the City"; and the Structure of Civic Organizational Fields: Evidence from Cape Town
(Springer, 2018)This article proposes a network analytic approach to the role of frames in shaping the structure of civic organizational fields. Adopting a perspective from the global South, it looks at the impact of the expression “Right ... -
Pedagogical Case Study: The Political Ecology of the Waste Economy
(SUPE Collective, 2019)A byproduct of industrial processes and household consumption, waste is a critical reflection of contemporary life. Waste management is an essential environmental service provided for by municipal governments, one with ... -
Chapter 23: CO2 as Neoliberal Fetish: The Love of Crisis and the Depoliticized Immuno-Biopolitics of Climate Change Governance
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018)Chapter 23 is in Part 4 of 'The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism'. The handbook showcases the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship in this field by bringing together a team of global experts. Across seven key sections, ... -
A Labour Question for the 21st Century: Perpetuating the Work Ethic in the Absence of Jobs in South Africa's Waste Sector
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)For centuries, economic relations in southern Africa were profoundly shaped by interventions that sought to attract and coerce workers to participate in colonial and apartheid economies. These interventions included efforts ... -
Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene: Immuno-biopolitics and Depoliticizing Ontologies in the Anthropocene
(SAGE, 2018)This paper argues that ‘the Anthropocene’ is a deeply depoliticizing notion. This de-politicization unfolds through the creation of a set of narratives, what we refer to as ‘AnthropoScenes’, which broadly share the effect ... -
Provincializing Urban Appropriation: Agonistic Transgression as a Mode of Actually Existing Appropriation in South African Cities
(John Wiley & Sons, 2018)Urban appropriation is a key dimension of both Lefebvre's widely hailed ‘Right to the City’ and Bayat's concept of ‘quiet encroachment’. For Lefebvre, appropriation is a (generally unrealized) claim by those who do not ... -
Geographies of waste: Conceptual vectors from the Global South
(SAGE Publication, 2018)Geographies of waste, which include examination of its flows and politics, have demonstrated empirical differences and contrasting approaches to researching waste in the Global North and South. Southern waste geographies ...