Abstract
Between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, the ongoing crises of the late-colonial Caribbean mingled with an emerging trend: white American and European tourists who flocked in ...growing numbers to the tropics in search of pleasure, leisure, and adventure. As these travelers arrived in port in the era before commercial flight, they encountered a ubiquitous scene: boys and young men in small rowboats, who would surround the incoming steamship and, nude or nearly nude, dive in the tropical surf for coins tossed overboard. Images and accounts of these coin divers circulated widely in travel media, and were instrumental in constructing a tourist-friendly vision of the Caribbean seaside as exotic, picturesque, erotic, and accessible. In colonial Caribbean sources, however, coin divers were viewed not as an alluring spectacle but as a criminal threat, somewhere between beggar, truant, and sex worker. The divers themselves were working-class youth inhabiting a harbor-world on the periphery of a stratified and shifting society. They experienced firsthand the transition from Caribbean colonialism to mass tourism, and used the harbor to enact a limited autonomy and demand recognition within a system that provided few meaningful alternatives. Analyzing the tensions between these contrasting modes of power—one that commodified and one that criminalized—we can better understand the complex dynamics in the transition from plantation colonialism to tourist neocolonialism in the Caribbean.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
The implementation of city lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposed some social inequalities in Mexico. The paper evaluates the effects of the closure of the Alameda Central, a public ...park in the Historic Centre of Mexico City. It examines how its closure affected some vulnerable populations, including homeless people, beggars, street vendors, buskers, and male sex workers, to the extent that they resisted leaving or found ways to return to public space. The research shows how Mexican COVID-19 policies tended to overlook the diversity of populations making use of public space, and their various necessities.
This study sought to understand the experiences of street beggars with vision impairment in Ghana. The study employed a qualitative research approach specifically phenomenology. Twenty-five (25) ...participants were purposively sampled from three (3) busy streets in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. Participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide and data collected was analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Findings showed that visually impaired street beggars experienced personal losses such as jobs, relationships and independence. In addition, the results showed that participants experienced daily challenges with regards to street begging. Further, street beggars with vision impairment reported a range of emotional experiences due to vision loss and street begging. The findings are discussed in relation to enhancing care and management of street beggars with visual impairment in Ghana.
Persons with vision loss are likely to struggle with the disability due to associated challenges such as loss of jobs, relationships, independency etc and these are likely to negatively affect their emotions.
The study found that persons with vision loss had to resort to street begging due to limited or lack of support from family in order to meet basic needs.
Street begging has been associated with some challenges such as accidents, harassment, low self-esteem and others. The participants in this study face daily challenges with street begging as they experience verbal abuse by passersby. Hence, the interaction of experience of vision loss and challenges with street begging could negatively affect their mental health.
Based on the findings, the researchers suggest that persons with disability in Ghana would require some form of psychosocial support to help them deal and adapt to their disabilities and also develop new skills appropriate to their level of functioning.
A perceiver’s socioeconomic status (SES) should influence social perceptions toward others. However, there is little evidence for this effect within and beyond Western samples. We hence evaluate the ...relationship between perceiver SES and dehumanized perception in a society where status is historically defined: India. Across two studies, we hypothesized that perceiver SES would predict dehumanization toward societal outcasts—beggars—and norm violators. Replicating previous work, in Study 1, upper SES perceivers dehumanized beggars more than lower SES perceivers; accounted for by low self-reported contact likelihood. In Study 2, norm violators were perceived as less human but more so by lower rather than upper SES perceivers. This novel finding was partially explained by perceivers viewing female violators as less prototypical, aligned with theorizing in gender research. Our results indicate that SES influences dehumanization via contact likelihood as well as the perceived normativity of a targets’ behavior.
Sir – or Saint – Thomas More (1478–1535) was a man of conscience, a lawyer, statesman, and Renaissance humanist: a man for all seasons.a He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system ...of an imaginary, ideal island nation, ruled by reason – in contrast to unruly contemporary European politics. ...he opposed Henry's separation from the Catholic Church (1532–1534); would not acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon; and, after refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was arrested in 1534, convicted of treason and beheaded. Thomas More Studies Conference, 5 November 2005 (thomasmorestudies.org). b ‘Tom o' Bedlam’ was used in early modern Britain to describe beggars and vagrants who had or feigned mental illness.
Poverty and beggars have always been a part of the city of Vienna. Between 1443 and 1693 only beggars with beggars’ badges („Stadtzeichen“) were authorised to beg. The contextualisation, edition and ...analysis of a beggars’ directory (“Stadtzeichnerbuch”) dating from the seventeenth century (1678–1685) reveals the living circumstances of more than 900 poor people which can hardly be found in other sources.
In this paper the statistical indicators concerning non-fatal and fatal accidents at work in the European Union (EU-28) and in the Republic of North Macedonia from 2012 to 2018 in construction sector ...were presented. The performed statistical analysis shows that the number of non-fatal and fatal accidents at work in EU-28 in 2018 was decreased in comparison with 2012. In the Republic of North Macedonia in 2018 there was an increase in the number of non- fatal and fatal accidents at work in construction sector in comparison to the number of accidents at work in 2012. Nevertheless, in the Republic North of Macedonia the value of incidence rate for fatal accidents at work in construction sector in 2018 is much lower compared to the average value in EU-28.
Panhandling income has not been well reviewed, though doing so would be beneficial for several reasons. Understanding beggar income may aid in addressing misconceptions about the activity, clarify ...the financial motivation for organized or forced begging, and allow for clearer comparisons to other kinds of shadow work like prostitution, binning, or selling drugs. This study presents a systematic review of panhandling income by using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis and PROSPERO guidelines to aid in identifying, screening, assessing, and including research that provides quantitative income information about panhandling. Income is adjusted for inflation, and international studies are converted to USD via standard exchange rate and via purchasing power parity values. Ultimately, 38 studies are included for final analysis. The 38 studies are divided into United States specific (n = 15) and all other countries (n = 23). In adjusted 2020 USD, the economic yield from panhandling is most often $2–$16 per hour, $20–$60 per day, and $200–$500 per month, substantial variation exists. Economic comparisons to other forms of shadow work and future research directions are provided.
O artigo busca perscrutar as lutas em torno dos modos de nomear os sujeitos que utilizam as ruas como morada, com intuito de perceber as sutilezas das redes de saber e poder que essas classificações ...históricas mobilizam. Recorrendo a um extenso levantamento bibliográfico e documental e à pesquisa etnográfica com os sujeitos que habitam as ruas, em suas diferentes interações, o texto historiciza as classificações atribuídas a esses sujeitos - do outrora vadio, indigente, mendigo ao presente integrante da população em situação de rua -, problematizando as diferentes estratégias repressivas e normalizadoras que continuam a recair sobre essas pessoas, encetando formas de assujeitamento, mas também modos de resistência. Quer recusando as classificações e seus estigmas, quer negando a moradia como única e primordial resposta política, esses sujeitos enunciam outros modos de ser, viver e se relacionar com a cidade, ocupando lugares outros, que chamamos aqui de "a terceira margem das instituições".
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