There’s a dirty secret that all scholars who study poverty know: it’s really hard to get the public interested in poor people. Why? Well, everyone is already aware that there are people who don’t have enough food, or don’t have access to life-saving medicine, or live on less than $1 […]
At Emoya Estate in Bloemfontein, South Africa, visitors can experience what it is to live in a local village — heating your own water over a fire and using “a long drop effect” outside toilet. The corrugated iron chalets may look like poor people live in them, but they are carefully […]
I am currently on a long-haul flight ON business. But not IN business. (I work at a public university, after all.) Accordingly, my 20 hour trip was spent mostly in a 16.5 inch wide seat. But I am NOT complaining. It gives me a physical way to reflect on some […]