...Laurence Shore Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 The Poverty of Tragedy in Historical Writing on Southern Slavery Laurence Shore It is generally accepted that the history of the South contains the elements of tragedy. Countless critics explain that the Southern Literary...

...Eric Cheyfitz This essay asks a question: what can't capitalism imagine in confronting the major social problem, poverty, facing the world today? The answer to that question is: the communal. To define the limits of capitalism's imagination, this essay begins by analyzing U.S. constitutional theory...

... and carried out in the early 1930s, covered all aspects of white rural poverty in South Africa. The first part of the essay discusses what made these comparisons possible by showing how American philanthropic organizations—especially the Carnegie Corporation—carved out spaces for the production and exchange...

... both the universality of death and the crucial differentiation of its genres. Death is not a standardized moment or an equal event; it can be untimely, premature, and violent. As such, death spotlights difference; death has a social life that is contextualized by brutality, inequality, poverty...

... based on social and economic justice. The essay then charts the uprising’s demise amid protestor division, mass poverty and unemployment, galloping inflation, palpable insecurity, COVID-19 lockdowns, and external intervention. Hizbullah became the elephant in the room, with sectarian tension and some...

... one of the highest rates of extreme poverty, inequality, and violence on the continent; (3) being both Black and poor is not exactly a coincidence. Although there are many reasons behind the protests in Colombia, this article focuses on the structural and everyday expressions of racism that lead...

... contractors, excluded from economic security, and anointed as “essential workers,” these workers were both celebrated and disproportionately exposed to poverty, disease, and death. This essay makes sense of the legal and lived condition of being essentially dispossessed during this moment. The author argues...

..., as no character of the imagination can possi­ bly exist (p. 11). In Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the power of evocation of the life of poverty is not drawn from the magic of any research tech- Not only a sometime social scientist, Mrs. Borenstein also writes fiction. Her stories have appeared in the North...

... study of Dante. Poetry and Value 471 Pound s friend from their days at the University of Pennsylvania, the physician William Carlos Williams, gave his own diagnosis of those pure products of America for whom physical poverty implied the absence of a self-expressive language. In To Elsie, Williams...

... and Poverty was published in 1879, sold widely and attracted a great deal of attention. It was cited by many of George s younger contemporaries as the source of their own awak­ ening to the problems of the industrial order. In fact, however, his audience was ready for some parts of his thought...

... strikes impelled him to begin writing Progress and Poverty, which he completed after eighteen months of concentrated labor. He knew he had produced a capital work and said so to his father and friends. George began with a discussion of the problem which had been tormenting him all his adult years: Where...

... of the matter at hand. For the vast majority of South Africans, misfortune or disaster begins at birth. Poverty, inequality, lack of opportunities, and the absence of care and assistance in meeting the basic requirements of life mark the child born black and poor. The tragedy of birth is compounded...

... of the Rutgers University Center for African Studies ). 2012 . Author interview , New Brunswick, NJ , September . Altvater Elmar ., eds. 1991 . The Poverty of Nations: A Guide to the Debt Crisis from Argentina to Zaire . London : Zed Books . Bajaj Vikas . 2011 . “ Microlenders...

... within (but not limited to) spaces where people are navigating poverty and precarity within the spaces of urban informal economies. Sex work is embedded within informal economies as one of a number of livelihood strategies that impover- ished, landless people of all genders use to sur- vive, all over...

.... In the conclu­ sions, their social welfare concept will be contrasted. I For Kirk, social welfare is certainly not a central concept, but it is a logical product of several of his main concepts. He does not indicate a deep concern for specific public problems such as poverty and unemployment, but he is directly...

..., and scandal. In Australia, for instance, indigenous rural and urban communities are open broom closets of poverty, disease, and despair. Since 1969, one year after the federal government was given the power to legis- The Child in the Broom Closet  513 late...

... . 2004 . Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation . New York : Autonomedia . Ferguson James . 2007 . “Formalities of Poverty: Thinking About Social Assistance in Neoliberal South Africa.” African Studies Review 50 , no. 2 : 71 – 86 . Ferguson James...

... with these problems and to in­ vestigate the secrets of nature. The advocates of the medieval ideal of life had a program which they recommended as an adequate means to attain their ideal. This is the monastic vow of chastity, obedience, and poverty. Nor was it monastic only, for Parzival in Wolfram s poem...

...: A Political Economy Approach . London : Routledge . Aalbers Manuel B. Holm Andrej . 2008 . “ Privatising Social Housing in Europe: The Cases of Amsterdam and Berlin .” Rooiijn 41 , no. 1 : 58 – 65 . Abbe-Pierre Foundation . 2017 . Report on Poverty in France . Poverty Analysis...

... families. (Since 1929, the commercial output of this poorer half of our farms has dropped still further.) Two thirds are in the South. They are the economically and politically sub- The American Farmer in a Changing World 415 merged half of our farmers. Most rural poverty and destitution is found among...