The years between circa 1760 and 1820 saw the sudden appearance of a substantial body of beggar images in British art, yet by the end of the period such images had all but disappeared. This thesis aims to investigate this phenomenon, which has never before been systematically st…
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This dissertation is a case study of cosmopolitan city space. It examines how ethnic, national and religious minorities used spatial settings to forge and negotiate conceptions of foreignness and localness in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Alexandria, Egypt. Using …
Arguing that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible, philosopher Peter Singer offers a seven-point plan that mixes personal philanthropy (figuring how much to give and how best to give it), local activism (spreading the word in …
Expectations of what philanthropy can achieve have risen significantly in recent years, reflecting a substantial, but uneven, increase in global wealth and the rolling back of state services in anticipation that philanthropy will fill the void. In addition to this, experiments w…
Expectations of what philanthropy can achieve have risen significantly in recent years, reflecting a substantial, but uneven, increase in global wealth and the rolling back of state services in anticipation that philanthropy will fill the void. In addition to this, experiments w…
Philanthropy - the use of private resources for public purposes - is undergoing a transformation, both in practice and as an emerging field of study. Expectations of what philanthropy can achieve have risen significantly in recent years, reflecting a substantial, but uneven, inc…
Expectations of what philanthropy can achieve have risen significantly in recent years, reflecting a substantial, but uneven, increase in global wealth and the rolling back of state services in anticipation that philanthropy will fill the void. In addition to this, experiments w…
Observations des comportements et des modes de pensée de ceux qui font de cette vallée l'une des zones les plus riches de la planète. Elles ont débouché sur un paradoxe : au paradis de l'économie de marché, où tout semble placé sous le signe de l'individualisme et de l'argent, u…
