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PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 635-653Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0309132513500893
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geography; inequality; philanthrocapitalism; philanthropy; super-rich; wealth
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This is the golden age of philanthropy. Over the 55-year period 1998-2052, bequests to charity in the USA alone are estimated to be between $109 and $454 billion per year. This paper exhorts geographers to give critical attention to less-than-charitable consequences of the so-called new philanthropy' among the super-rich. It sets out a number of areas that appear to warrant critical geographical inquiry, including: bonds between philanthropic engagement and place; diaspora philanthropy; jurisdictional taxation arrangements favouring the wealthy and super-rich; characteristics of culturally variegated philanthropy; and philanthropy's geographical links with spaces of exploitation and territories of guilt.
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