by Flaminia Ripani (18) (
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I'am a freelance writer living at the moment in Sydney.I believe that each limit hides a new creation, therefore I am hunting the limits. I am interested in finance and economics, monetary reform and the psychology of society.
Every day we face the poverty's risk in its various and different forms: economic poverty, families' indigence, geographical underdevelopment, rising debt. Our times move between the two extreme poles of abundance and poverty. The affluent society has its shadow in poverty and we are accustomed to judge what is poor as inefficient.
Indeed, we are used to fearing poverty. However, poverty is the shadow's name of our affluent society, and the shadow hold is its power on its projectors every time it decided to show its face. Therefore, we swing between two opposite attitudes, on one hand what is poor is looked at as inferior and containable, on the other hand poverty strikes us to the extent to which the everyday experience shows that it is not containable. Indeed poverty cannot be the object of a perfect calculation. Hence, each time our times try to calculate the world's poverty and believe it has finally beaten it, poverty changes its face and erupts into the boundaries of our own society (as the last economic crisis has shown).
James Ferguson, an American anthropologist at Stanford University, throughout his localised ethnographic focus on southern Africa has developed far-reaching critiques of globalisation, development and modernity which provides insight into modernity and inequality in Australia, particularly in the way in which Aboriginal peoples have been categorised.
Gaynor Macdonald will outline Ferguson's contributions over the past two decades during a conference promoted by the University of Sydney. The James Ferguson conference will be held at 6:00pm on October 12, 2011.
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