Aviva Sinervo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aviva Sinervo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aviva |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinervo |
| SIGNATURE | SINERVO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention
Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention
This text explores how humanitarian interventions for children in difficult circumstances engage in affective commodification of disadvantaged childhoods. The chapters consider how transnational charitable industries are created and mobilized around childhood need - highlighting children in situations of war and poverty, and with indeterminate access to health and education - to redirect global resource flows and sentiments in order to address co…
Brokering aid through tourism
This article considers the crucial role played by local volunteer tourism coordinators in Cusco, Peru. Previous studies tend to neglect this population, but as gatekeepers facilitating interactions between international sending agencies, volunteer tourists, and the aid communities they serve, coordinators are uniquely positioned to comment on multiple facets of the industry. I argue that their continuous juggling of contradictory goals—the satisf…
No somos los pobrecitos
In Cusco, Peru, children participating as informal vendors in the tourism industry are often stigmatized as pobrecitos - poor children who are in positions of economic and psychological vulnerability. Stereotypes about childhood poverty inform how these children can access aid or be successful vendors. Yet children also respond to such perceptions by strategically rejecting and reworking circulating ideas about their poverty. Demonstrating that t…
The Visual Economy of Andean Childhood Poverty
Este artículo examina la producción, circulación y consumo de tarjetas postales con representaciones de "niños andinos pobres" en mercados turísticos de Cusco, Perú. Se sostiene que una serie de actores que participan en esta cadena de productos—que incluye a los productores de las imágenes, turistas y consumidores locales, niños vendedores y coordinadores de voluntarios—están involucrados en la negociación de significados sobre la niñez y la pob…
Expressions of Childhood and Poverty in a Peruvian Children's Center
The Visual Economy of Andean Childhood Poverty
Este artículo examina la producción, circulación y consumo de tarjetas postales con representaciones de "niños andinos pobres" en mercados turísticos de Cusco, Perú. Se sostiene que una serie de actores que participan en esta cadena de productos—que incluye a los productores de las imágenes, turistas y consumidores locales, niños vendedores y coordinadores de voluntarios—están involucrados en la negociación de significados sobre la niñez y la pob…
Brokering aid through tourism
This article considers the crucial role played by local volunteer tourism coordinators in Cusco, Peru. Previous studies tend to neglect this population, but as gatekeepers facilitating interactions between international sending agencies, volunteer tourists, and the aid communities they serve, coordinators are uniquely positioned to comment on multiple facets of the industry. I argue that their continuous juggling of contradictory goals—the satisf…
No somos los pobrecitos
In Cusco, Peru, children participating as informal vendors in the tourism industry are often stigmatized as pobrecitos - poor children who are in positions of economic and psychological vulnerability. Stereotypes about childhood poverty inform how these children can access aid or be successful vendors. Yet children also respond to such perceptions by strategically rejecting and reworking circulating ideas about their poverty. Demonstrating that t…
Expressions of Childhood and Poverty in a Peruvian Children's Center
The Visual Economy of Andean Childhood Poverty
Este artículo examina la producción, circulación y consumo de tarjetas postales con representaciones de "niños andinos pobres" en mercados turísticos de Cusco, Perú. Se sostiene que una serie de actores que participan en esta cadena de productos—que incluye a los productores de las imágenes, turistas y consumidores locales, niños vendedores y coordinadores de voluntarios—están involucrados en la negociación de significados sobre la niñez y la pob…
No somos los pobrecitos
In Cusco, Peru, children participating as informal vendors in the tourism industry are often stigmatized as pobrecitos - poor children who are in positions of economic and psychological vulnerability. Stereotypes about childhood poverty inform how these children can access aid or be successful vendors. Yet children also respond to such perceptions by strategically rejecting and reworking circulating ideas about their poverty. Demonstrating that t…
Brokering aid through tourism
This article considers the crucial role played by local volunteer tourism coordinators in Cusco, Peru. Previous studies tend to neglect this population, but as gatekeepers facilitating interactions between international sending agencies, volunteer tourists, and the aid communities they serve, coordinators are uniquely positioned to comment on multiple facets of the industry. I argue that their continuous juggling of contradictory goals—the satisf…
Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention
Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention
This text explores how humanitarian interventions for children in difficult circumstances engage in affective commodification of disadvantaged childhoods. The chapters consider how transnational charitable industries are created and mobilized around childhood need - highlighting children in situations of war and poverty, and with indeterminate access to health and education - to redirect global resource flows and sentiments in order to address co…
Political science (5 works) · Poverty (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Tourism (2 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)