Living the Dream: youth, unemployment, and the promise of a middle-class life in Cairo
May 1Harry Pettit, London School of Economics The rise of a Global Middle Class has been lauded by development institutions, the media, and academia...
Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members
Filter by: All | Economic Crisis | Poverty discourse | Inequality | Difference: | Places: N. America, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia
Regulation by ambiguity: The spatial politics of a Paraguayan frontier economy
August 19Jennifer Tucker, University of California at Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning Since the 1980s, extra-legal networks of custom...
Migration Economies: Central American transit, sociality, and exploitation on the journey through Mexico
May 9Mario Bruzzone - University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Geography My scholarship interprets the economic role of transit migrants...
Varieties of labor-market “inclusion”
May 9Jamie Peck - University of British Columbia - Department of Geography I am working on the institutional and social segmentation of low-wage...