Begging and Disability: A Paradigmatic Way to Earn One s Living

CAROLINA FERRANTE; EDUARDO JOLY

Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook

Springer

Lugar: Cham; Año: 2016; p. 151 - 166

Reporting the results of a qualitative research on disability and begging in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in this chapter we focus on problematize three questions: What is the rationale whereby lower-class people with disabilities in a peripheral capitalist setting think of begging as business? What explains the generous disposition of those who give alms to others because they have a disability? What does the spectacle of a disabled body, as an invalid unfortunate recipient, tell us about the social relations promoted within todays capitalism in a country belonging to the global South and about the challenges facing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to materialize inclusion?