Economics, Politics, and Religion: Social Justice |
The purpose of this blog is to discuss topics in Economics, Politics, and Religion from a social justice approach. I am a strong believer in ethics; and I truly believe that no anlytical methodology is strong without an ethical perspective that, at least, attempts to assign people their respective rights. However, there will be posts that don't analyze all topics through ethics; but all posts will mantain a tangent to one of the three subjects. |
Much of our work at Affordable Housing Instiute involves working with housing in slums. The founder of AHI, David Smith, writes a daily blog, which is updated on the institute’s website, on topics ranging from finance, real estate, to affordable housing, and etc.
Today he posted about the effect culling of pig culling has had on the Coptic Christian minority of Egypt and the waste disposal informal economy of Cairo, post swine-flu scare. Reading the article was nostalgic of my observations of the involvement of Christians and Hindus in Karach, Pakistan (my city of birth) in the trash collecting, cleaning, and disposing industry of the greater Krachi.
The post is an excellent example of how religious, ethnic, and/or racial minorities, who are effectively segregated and pushed to the fringes of society, participate in very critical and crucial economic sectors of their communities. Yet, they are never given due credit and in fact, they are targeted unjustly as scape goats for events and/or happenings that are neither their fault, nor their responsibility.
I highly recommend this reading. The pictures illustrate the story very well!
