No somos los pobrecitos
Negotiating stigma, identity, and need in constructions of childhood poverty in Cusco, Peru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3104161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aviva Sinervo (San Francisco State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 398-413 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0907568213483598 |
| OpenAlex | W2312698302 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 31 |
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 there are tensions between how children are expected to display poverty to obtain resources - both revenue through the sale of souvenirs and social assistance through volunteer tourism - and how they are criticized for capitalizing on such positionality, this article argues that children creatively negotiate the meanings attached to performances and experiences of poverty. Children participate in the work of categorization, even as they must take into account the powerful emotional currency of conceptions of poverty and childhood, and the ways in which such ideas travel
Chronic poverty · Economic growth · Economics · Negotiation · Perception · Political science · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Brokering aid through tourism
Towards a relational understanding of child poverty
Volunteer Tourism
Affective life, “vulnerable” youths, and international volunteering in a residential care programme in Cusco, Peru
Affirmative biopolitics
Children as biological sufferers? The paradox of international medical aid for homeless children in Cairo
Sweet charity?
At Home in the Street
Pillars of the Nation
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work
Pricing the priceless child
Dangerous or Endangered
Visions of CharityVolunteer Workers and Moral Community
The Spirit of Development
Shining and Other Paths
Cholas and pishtacos
In Search of Respect
Sorting Things Out
The Logic of Practice
Identifying the role of children in informal trade
Bad Mothers’ and ‘Delinquent Children’
The Anthropology of Welfare “Reform
Indigenous Mestizos
Framing the Social World With Photo-Elicitation Interviews
Beyond on or with
The Circulation of Children
Challenges and Opportunities in the Anthropology of Childhoods
Touring Ancient Times
Anthropology of Tourism
The Visual Economy of Andean Childhood Poverty
Contesting Patrimony
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |