The literature on climate migration is increasingly concerned with linking the natural-environmental and socio-cultural dimensions of risk response. However, the epistemological disjuncture between ...‘objective’ and subjective accounts of the environment is an impediment. In particular, despite clear evidence of mutual relevance, work on the emotional landscape of climate change has remained separate from more systematic analyses. Aiming to resolve this, this paper uses the case of a Cambodian beggar to show how recent developments across three fields have laid the groundwork for the structural and emotional dimensions of climate change response to be engaged with under a coherent theoretical rubric.
This article investigates how donation behavior to charitable organizations and helping intentions toward begging European Union (EU)-migrants are related. This question was tested by analyzing ...survey responses from 1,050 participants sampled from the general Swedish population. Although the overall results suggested that donations to charitable organizations were positively related to helping intentions toward beggars, the results differed substantially as a function of whether the organization was perceived to focus its efforts on outgroup victims or on ingroup victims. Specifically, whereas donation behavior toward outgroup-focused organizations clearly predicted more helping intentions toward beggars (also when controlling for demographics, education, income, religiosity, and political inclination), donation behavior toward ingroup-focused organizations predicted slightly less helping intentions toward beggars. We conclude that the type of charitable organization a person donates to might tell us more about his or her values and preferences than merely whether or not he or she donates at all.
The paper employs the spatial econometric method and in the Yangtze River Delta, constructs unique spatial matrices to analyze the effect of environmental regulation on haze pollution. The effect of ...formal and informal environmental regulation is also differentiated. The contributions of this paper are: (1) Research perspective: it compares the effects of informal and formal environmental regulations, stresses the effect of environmental regulation on haze pollution, and identifies the specific mechanisms involved; (2) in terms of methodologies, the study employs a spatial self-lag model and constructs an asymmetric logistics matrix; (3) the study investigates the micro-mechanism involved, to reveal the intermediate action of technological innovation and industrial structure; (4) it is shown that the results are robust after using the instrumental variable (promotion pressure of government officials) for environmental regulation. The policy implications are: Environmental regulation in the Yangtze River Delta region still needs to make a trade-off between economic development and environmental pollution, but the good news is that the convergence of environmental regulation can help promote environmental improvement, and the rigorization of environmental regulation can help optimize industrial structure, and talent cultivation is conducive to the formation and strengthening of the neighbor-companion effect of environmental regulation.
•Employ spatial econometrics to explore environmental regulation and haze pollution.•Find relations between environmental regulation and haze pollution is “inverted-U”.•Haze pollution in the Yangtze River Delta represents a neighbor beggar mode.•Environmental regulation and haze pollution also show neighbor-companion mode.•Different environmental regulations have different mechanisms on haze pollution.
: Much of the discussion surrounding neoliberal urbanism has been empirically grounded in the North. This paper shifts the discussion south to focus on the regulation of indigenous street vendors ...and beggars in the Andean nation of Ecuador. Inspired by zero tolerance policies from the North, the cities of Quito and Guayaquil have recently initiated urban regeneration projects to cleanse the streets of informal workers, beggars, and street children. In this paper, I explore the particular and pernicious ways in which these neoliberal urban policies affect indigenous peoples in the urban informal sector. Grounded in the literature on space, race and ethnicity in the Andes, I argue that Ecuador's particular twist on revanchism is through its more transparent engagement with the project of blanqueamiento or “whitening”. I further argue that Ecuador's “refinement” of revanchist urban policies only works to displace already marginalised individuals and push them into more difficult circumstances.
In this article I argue that disabled people in the United Kingdom have been tipped into an abyss of counterfeit citizenship. They have been smeared as 'false mendicants' - an old trick well ...documented in the historical archives of ableism. Neoliberalism has used this repertoire of invalidation - its noxious taint of cunning and fraud - as the 'moral justification' for welfare reform and for the pillory and notoriety into which the entire disabled community has been placed. Austerity - through the neoliberal politics of resentment - has made disabled people its scapegoat. I argue that a historical precedent for the contemporary demonisation of disabled people as counterfeit citizens can be found in the early modern period in the mythology of the 'sturdy beggar'.
Public characterisations of begging tend in two directions: destitution or fraud. On the one hand begging is portrayed as largely disorganised, and on the other, criminally organised. Based on rare ...ethnographic research with people who beg and live on a pavement in Dhaka, Bangladesh, this article confronts such understandings, arguing that those who beg often conceive of the act as work, and relationships in such context can mirror those found among labour. Here beggars employ assistants, and associations emerge from beggars themselves, playing diverse roles, including the provision of savings and credit. While such hierarchies are largely neglected in the literature, sparse historical cases, particularly from Asia, suggest similar arrangements may be more common than recognised. This article thus builds towards a broader agenda concerning the hierarchies and associational lives of people who beg.
This research is motivated many children become beggars in Pasar Raya Padang. Children are supposed to be from morning till noon at school, but in realita, a lot of them are also found to work as ...beggars on the streets. Study aimed to describe : (1) Opinion of the nuclear family (parents) internally about children working as beggars in the Kingdom Market Padang, (2) external opinion families, about children who work as beggars in Pasar Raya Padang , (3) Causes of child Begging.This research was conducted for three months ie from December to February. From the results of research in the field shows that the causes of child begging in Pasar Raya Padang caused by several things: (1) The opinion of parents whose children work as beggars said that, it is risky and unsafe. (2) The opinion of the child beggars external parties include family, peer opinion is that amplifies the children to become beggars. (3) The opinion of other factors beyond the family as a second opinion includes the school , neighbors and community leaders, there are some people who think negatively and most positively to the beggar child labor. (4) Knowledge and understanding of the life of the child beggars begging. (5) Analysis of the combination internal and external). Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi banyaknya anak-anak yang menjadi pengemis di Pasar Raya Padang. Anak-anak yang seharusnya dari pagi sampai siang berada disekolah, namun pada realitasnya, banyak juga mereka ditemukan dijalanan bekerja sebagai pengemis. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan : (1) Pendapat keluarga inti (orang tua) secara internal tentang anak bekerja sebagai pengemis di Pasar Raya Padang; (2) Pendapat pihak eksternal keluarga, tentang anak yang bekerja sebagai pengemis di Pasar Raya Padang; (3) Faktor Penyebab Anak Mengemis. Dari hasil penelitian di lapangan menunjukkan bahwa faktor penyebab anak mengemis di Pasar Raya Padang disebabkan oleh beberapa hal yaitu : (1) Pendapat orang tua yang anaknya bekerja sebagai pengemis mengatakan bahwa, hal tersebut penuh resiko dan tidak aman. (2) Pendapat pihak eksternal keluarga pengemis anak meliputi, pendapat teman sebaya merupakan pihak yang menguatkan anak untuk menjadi pengemis. (3) Pendapat dari faktor lain diluar keluarga sebagai second opini meliputi pihak sekolah, tetangga dan tokoh masyarakat, sebagian pihak ada yang berpendapat negatif dan sebagian positif terhadap pekerja pengemis anak. (4) Pengetahuan dan pemahaman pengemis anak tentang kehidupan mengemis. (5) Analisis kombinasi (internal dan eksternal).
Chinese cities are making a name for themselves through what Guthman calls an ‘accumulation by spectacle’. Studies elucidate the fast change of the urban fabric and the interconnection of commercial ...profits with pro-state propaganda during mega-events. The spectacle appears as a once-in-lifetime chance for a city, orchestrated during a specific time and in purpose-built venues. This article, however, argues that efforts of spectacularisation expand to everyday life. I take the marginalisation of the urban poor in Guangzhou, that is, street vendors and beggars, as a starting point to understand governmental ideals, strategies and patterns of controlling public space. The data is based on fieldwork, government documents, yearbooks and newspapers. Engaging in the discussion on what Debord termed the ‘society of the spectacle’, I explain how urban management concentrates on areas serving (1) tourism and commerce, (2) memorial politics, (3) government relations and (4) transport and traffic; and follows the pulse of (1) annual events and seasonal holidays, (2) recurring political dates, (3) exceptional mega-events and (4) regular urban development campaigns. These zones and periods of increased control intertwine and culminate in an ‘ideal’ public space excluding poverty and other elements contesting the city’s success images.
This paper contributes to debates around cultural event management in the Chinese century by investigating the case of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM). It first problematises ...the Chinese century concept by contrasting studies on film-related soft power in China as cultural diplomacy with the Macao Special Administrative Government’s use of festivals and events as place marketing strategies. It argues Macao does not fit comfortably into the soft power paradigm normally associated with China and uses the festival to illuminate areas of difference. Within this problematised context, the case study of IFFAM is built on existing studies of eventalisation as urban cultural policies. The analysis section demonstrates IFFAM differs from state-led film activities in mainland China. Findings presented and evaluated include official announcements about IFFAM by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), where the festival’s objective to ‘improve Macao’s international reputation’ are contrasted with the paradigms underpinning mainland China’s going-out international trade policy. Further findings relate to the festival’s programming strategies, and domestic and international reception of IFFAM in the past years, answering the question of whether Macao and IFFAM act as intermediaries, influencing cultural policy and film festival production practices in other regions of China and recentring film festivals’ focus from Europe to Asia. It emphasises the importance of IFFAM’s development in Macao because of its unique status and potential as an alternative, intermediary lens for observing the Chinese century.
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