Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/14649934211020859
Zoe Jordan
Bjarnesen, J. and Turner, S. editors. 2020: Invisibility in African Displacements: From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance. Africa Now series, The Nordic Africa Institute. London: Zed Books. 312 pp. £24.99. ISBN: 9781786999207 (paperback).
{"title":"Book Review: Bjarnesen, J. and Turner, S. editors. 2020: Invisibility in African Displacements: From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance","authors":"Zoe Jordan","doi":"10.1177/14649934211020859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211020859","url":null,"abstract":"Bjarnesen, J. and Turner, S. editors. 2020: Invisibility in African Displacements: From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance. Africa Now series, The Nordic Africa Institute. London: Zed Books. 312 pp. £24.99. ISBN: 9781786999207 (paperback).","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"409 - 411"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49665530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: van Beemen, Olivier. 2019: Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed","authors":"Benedikt Kamski","doi":"10.1177/14649934211020834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211020834","url":null,"abstract":"van Beemen, Olivier. 2019: Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed. London: Hurst. 328 pp. £20.00. ISBN: 9781849049023","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"196 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48375713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/14649934211018766
Balázs Laki
Joo, Y.M. and Tan, T.B. editors. 2020: Smart Cities in Asia: Governing Development in the Era of Hyper-Connectivity. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 224 pp. £85.00. ISBN: 9781788972871 (hardback).
{"title":"Book Review: Joo, Y.M. and Tan, T.B. editors. 2020: Smart Cities in Asia: Governing Development in the Era of Hyper-Connectivity","authors":"Balázs Laki","doi":"10.1177/14649934211018766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211018766","url":null,"abstract":"Joo, Y.M. and Tan, T.B. editors. 2020: Smart Cities in Asia: Governing Development in the Era of Hyper-Connectivity. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 224 pp. £85.00. ISBN: 9781788972871 (hardback).","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"408 - 409"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48040715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-13DOI: 10.1177/14649934211059402
Nicolas Barrantes, Jhonatan Clausen
The number of people in low- and middle-income countries who suffer from depression is increasing, and a significant proportion of people in these countries live in poverty. We estimated the effect of living in multidimensional poverty on experiencing symptoms associated with major depression using the 2018 Peruvian Demographic and Health Survey. We used an instrumental variables approach to overcome the potential endogeneity bias caused by the simultaneous relationship between multidimensional poverty and depression. We found that living in multidimensional poverty significantly increases depression symptom severity. This has urgent policy implications for low- and middle-income countries with limited provision of mental health services.
{"title":"Does Multidimensional Poverty Affect Depression? Evidence from Peru","authors":"Nicolas Barrantes, Jhonatan Clausen","doi":"10.1177/14649934211059402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211059402","url":null,"abstract":"The number of people in low- and middle-income countries who suffer from depression is increasing, and a significant proportion of people in these countries live in poverty. We estimated the effect of living in multidimensional poverty on experiencing symptoms associated with major depression using the 2018 Peruvian Demographic and Health Survey. We used an instrumental variables approach to overcome the potential endogeneity bias caused by the simultaneous relationship between multidimensional poverty and depression. We found that living in multidimensional poverty significantly increases depression symptom severity. This has urgent policy implications for low- and middle-income countries with limited provision of mental health services.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"107 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43959074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-09DOI: 10.1177/14649934211047378
Yunpeng Zhang
This article examines the current wave of feature town development in China, a key pillar of China’s new type urbanization strategy. It is based on a case study of a feature town in Yangzhou, which is being developed within Wantou Township, with a focus on tourism nominally connected with the jadeware industry through public–private partnership (PPP). The article first demonstrates how the local government took advantage of inflated institutional incentives and pursued speculative construction and commodification of places. Although PPP introduced new dynamics to project financing and operation, this Jadeware Feature Town project, integral to urban-centric socio-spatial transformations of Wantou, marginalized existing inhabitants, sustained a land-based accumulation and reproduced an urban bias. The experience of the Jadeware Feature Town deviates from the national urbanization strategy’s emphasis on inclusion and equity and raises concerns over whether feature town development, or PPPs, can offer an alternative to exploitative, exclusionary land-based urbanization.
{"title":"Feature town development for inclusive urban development? The case of the Jadeware Feature Town in Yangzhou, China","authors":"Yunpeng Zhang","doi":"10.1177/14649934211047378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211047378","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the current wave of feature town development in China, a key pillar of China’s new type urbanization strategy. It is based on a case study of a feature town in Yangzhou, which is being developed within Wantou Township, with a focus on tourism nominally connected with the jadeware industry through public–private partnership (PPP). The article first demonstrates how the local government took advantage of inflated institutional incentives and pursued speculative construction and commodification of places. Although PPP introduced new dynamics to project financing and operation, this Jadeware Feature Town project, integral to urban-centric socio-spatial transformations of Wantou, marginalized existing inhabitants, sustained a land-based accumulation and reproduced an urban bias. The experience of the Jadeware Feature Town deviates from the national urbanization strategy’s emphasis on inclusion and equity and raises concerns over whether feature town development, or PPPs, can offer an alternative to exploitative, exclusionary land-based urbanization.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"72 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65708086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-04DOI: 10.1177/14649934211043615
N. Stremlau, Anna Tsalapatanis
The role of new technologies, including mobile phones and social media, in migration moved to the fore during the European migrant crisis in 2015. Images of Syrians fleeing civil war, along with Iraqis and Afghans, guided by their mobile phones became common in the international media. While much has been made about the importance of mobile phones for migrants, including by humanitarian organizations, what evidence do we have about the role such technologies have in migration, particularly for migrants in, and from, Africa? This article uses a semi-systematic approach to evaluate the strength of the evidence around the use (or not) of mobile phones and social media in the migratory pathways of Africans, primarily to Europe. This includes detailed systematic database searches, submissions from experts such as academics and practitioners as well as the use of snowball citation searches. We argue that given the intensity of the claims affirming the role of new technologies in migration, the evidence remains surprisingly anecdotal and weak. In short, the use of mobile phones, and social media, on migratory pathways cannot be generalized and further investigation is urgently required to better determine whether, and how, such technologies are shaping and transforming migration in the ways so frequently argued.
{"title":"Social Media, Mobile Phones and Migration in Africa: A Review of the Evidence","authors":"N. Stremlau, Anna Tsalapatanis","doi":"10.1177/14649934211043615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211043615","url":null,"abstract":"The role of new technologies, including mobile phones and social media, in migration moved to the fore during the European migrant crisis in 2015. Images of Syrians fleeing civil war, along with Iraqis and Afghans, guided by their mobile phones became common in the international media. While much has been made about the importance of mobile phones for migrants, including by humanitarian organizations, what evidence do we have about the role such technologies have in migration, particularly for migrants in, and from, Africa? This article uses a semi-systematic approach to evaluate the strength of the evidence around the use (or not) of mobile phones and social media in the migratory pathways of Africans, primarily to Europe. This includes detailed systematic database searches, submissions from experts such as academics and practitioners as well as the use of snowball citation searches. We argue that given the intensity of the claims affirming the role of new technologies in migration, the evidence remains surprisingly anecdotal and weak. In short, the use of mobile phones, and social media, on migratory pathways cannot be generalized and further investigation is urgently required to better determine whether, and how, such technologies are shaping and transforming migration in the ways so frequently argued.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"56 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44443481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/14649934211044254
Dibyendu Maiti, C. Locke
{"title":"The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Deadly Threat to Human Livelihoods and Development","authors":"Dibyendu Maiti, C. Locke","doi":"10.1177/14649934211044254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211044254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"335 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41735157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-01Epub Date: 2021-04-20DOI: 10.1177/1464993421998209
Thembelihle Zuma, Rachel King, Nothando Ngwenya, Francis Xavier Kasujja, Natsayi Chimbindi, Rachel Kawuma, Maryam Shahmanesh, Sarah Bernays, Janet Seeley
We examine data from young women and men in South Africa and young female sex workers in Uganda to explore the inequalities and hardships experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and investigate the opportunities and ability presented to navigate in a virtual world to build an inclusive supportive future for young people on the move. We argue that against the backdrop of a fragile past, young people who see their today disturbed, tomorrow reshaped and their futures interrupted, need support to interact with their social environment and adjust their lives and expectations amidst the changing influences of social forces.
{"title":"Lives Interrupted: Navigating Hardship During COVID-19 Provides Lessons in Solidarity and Visibility for Mobile Young People in South Africa and Uganda.","authors":"Thembelihle Zuma, Rachel King, Nothando Ngwenya, Francis Xavier Kasujja, Natsayi Chimbindi, Rachel Kawuma, Maryam Shahmanesh, Sarah Bernays, Janet Seeley","doi":"10.1177/1464993421998209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993421998209","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examine data from young women and men in South Africa and young female sex workers in Uganda to explore the inequalities and hardships experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and investigate the opportunities and ability presented to navigate in a virtual world to build an inclusive supportive future for young people on the move. We argue that against the backdrop of a fragile past, young people who see their today disturbed, tomorrow reshaped and their futures interrupted, need support to interact with their social environment and adjust their lives and expectations amidst the changing influences of social forces.</p>","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"21 4","pages":"419-434"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1464993421998209","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39588756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-22DOI: 10.1177/14649934211035219
M. Daher, A. Rosati, Andrea Jaramillo
Much research has identified the difficulties of promoting women’s empowerment using microcredit, but there has been little research on the potential for empowerment from promoting women’s savings. We address this gap through a qualitative study of three women’s savings programmes in the Highlands of Peru. The results reveal changes in several domains of women’s lives (economic, personal and relational), emphasizing that these programmes enable them to think about the future, expand their social support networks, and become entrepreneurs. We conclude that savings interventions have considerable advantage over microcredit programmes for facilitating female empowerment and that the merits of these interventions go far beyond financial inclusion with significant impacts on women’s psychosocial well-being and broader empowerment.
{"title":"Saving as a Path for Female Empowerment and Entrepreneurship in Rural Peru","authors":"M. Daher, A. Rosati, Andrea Jaramillo","doi":"10.1177/14649934211035219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211035219","url":null,"abstract":"Much research has identified the difficulties of promoting women’s empowerment using microcredit, but there has been little research on the potential for empowerment from promoting women’s savings. We address this gap through a qualitative study of three women’s savings programmes in the Highlands of Peru. The results reveal changes in several domains of women’s lives (economic, personal and relational), emphasizing that these programmes enable them to think about the future, expand their social support networks, and become entrepreneurs. We conclude that savings interventions have considerable advantage over microcredit programmes for facilitating female empowerment and that the merits of these interventions go far beyond financial inclusion with significant impacts on women’s psychosocial well-being and broader empowerment.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"32 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45815141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-17DOI: 10.1177/14649934211015931
D. Hammett
Wiegratz, J., Martiniello, G. and Greco, E., editors, 2018: Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation. London: Zed Books. 408 pp. ISBN 1 78699 109 6 (cloth), 1 78699 108 9 (paper). £70.00 (cloth), £21.99 (paper).
{"title":"Book review: Wiegratz, J., Martiniello, G. and Greco, E., editors, 2018: Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation","authors":"D. Hammett","doi":"10.1177/14649934211015931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211015931","url":null,"abstract":"Wiegratz, J., Martiniello, G. and Greco, E., editors, 2018: Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation. London: Zed Books. 408 pp. ISBN 1 78699 109 6 (cloth), 1 78699 108 9 (paper). £70.00 (cloth), £21.99 (paper).","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"92 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49378801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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