Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife
In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action … Continue reading
From Multiple Deprivations to Exploitation: Politicizing the Multidimensional Poverty Index
The overarching point is that, absent a serious consideration of how to go about doing so, there is a risk that interventions targeting particular deprivations or clusters will wind up … Continue reading
Does hotter temperature increase poverty and inequality? Global evidence from subnational data analysis
Despite a vast literature documenting the harmful effects of climate change on various socioeconomic outcomes, little evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty and inequality. Analysis … Continue reading
Public space and public rituals: Engagement and protest in the digital age
In our technology-based society, individuals have more tools that they can use to manage and ‘show’ themselves in public space. In public space, they are monitored by agencies using surveillance … Continue reading
Migrant waste collectors in Thailand’s informal economy: Mapping class relations
Recent scholarship on primitive accumulation and deagrarianisation in the global South has addressed a decline in formal employment prospects, leaving most ex-peasants (and their heirs) struggling to earn a livelihood … Continue reading
A political economy of overoptimism – Measuring global poverty before and during the pandemic
The contribution of this paper is to question the ‘official’ estimates of global monetary poverty up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue there is a political economy of … Continue reading
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