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Fringe Heroines: Situated Struggles of Women Scientists in Brazilian Agriculture
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-08-02)Feminist scholarship regards the Western scientific revolution and twentieth-century agricultural modernization as patriarchal endeavors and technoscientific regimes as entangled in societal interests and politics. In ... -
Describing Adolescents with Disabilities’ Experiences of COVID-19 and Other Humanitarian Emergencies in Low- and middle-income Countries: a Scoping Review
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-09-06)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and other humanitarian emergencies exacerbate pre-existing inequalities faced by people with disabilities. They experience worse access to health, education, and social services, and ... -
Inclusive Early Childhood Development and Education in Kenya: What do Parents, Teachers and Children Understand, Perceive and Experience?
(The Critical Institute, 2023-07)This paper describes qualitative research nested in a larger intervention programme developing and piloting a model of disability inclusive early childhood development and education (ECDE) in two districts in Kenya for ... -
COVID-19 and Informal Workers in Asian Cities: Impact, Response, and Implications for Urban Recovery
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-06-15)As COVID-19 took hold across borders in 2020 and 2021, more than 1.6 billion informal workers were estimated by the United Nations to have been impacted by mobility restrictions and other “lockdown” measures to tackle the ... -
Adolescents with Disabilities and Caregivers Experience of COVID-19 in Rural Nepal
(Frontiers, 2023-06-09)COVID-19 caused severe disruption to the lives of adolescents. UNICEF estimates that school closures affected more than 1.6 billion learners, with those in low- and middle-income countries having the least access to remote ... -
Business Licencing Reform and Gender Equality: Evidence from Indonesia
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-06-14)Business environment reform targets inadequate business regulations, intending to remove constraints to business investment, enabling growth and job creation, and creating opportunities for international business to ... -
Applying the ‘Candidacy’ Model to Understand Access to Key Nutrition, Food & Health Services in LMIC Contexts: a Qualitative Study in Odisha, India
(Springer, 2023-04-04)In order to make progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2 – Zero Hunger – we must acquire a better understanding of what continues to hamper achieving food security, particularly in contexts where progress has been ... -
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas: Transforming Development from Control to Care
(Berghahn, 2023-06-01)Pastoralists must continuously confront uncertainties, responding to high levels of variability and volatility where the future is unknown. Yet mainstream modernising development in pastoral areas aims to create stability ... -
The Life with Corona survey
(Elsevier, 2022-08)The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis affecting everyone. Yet, its challenges and countermeasures vary significantly over time and space. Individual experiences of the pandemic are highly heterogeneous and its impacts ... -
Going, Going, Gone? Varieties of Dissent and Leader Exit
(SAGE, 2022-10-18)We examine how popular dissent affects the likelihood that political leaders lose power, distinguishing between types of dissent in terms of nonviolent/violent primary tactics as well as the level of individual participation. ... -
Life With Corona: Increased Gender Differences in Aggression and Depression Symptoms Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic Burden in Germany
(Frontiers, 2021-07-27)Gender differences (GD) in mental health have come under renewed scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic. While rapidly emerging evidence indicates a deterioration of mental health in general, it remains unknown whether the ... -
Secessionist Conflict and Affective Polarization: Evidence from Catalonia
(SAGE, 2022-09-01)Can secessionism be a basis for affective or social polarization? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the risk of violent conflict, ... -
Do TJ Policies Cause Backlash? Evidence from Street Name Changes in Spain
(SAGE, 2021-12-13)Memories of old conflicts often shape domestic politics long after these conflicts end. Contemporary debates about past civil wars and/or repressive regimes in different parts of the world suggest that these are sensitive ... -
Africa's Lockdown Dilemma: High Poverty and Low Trust
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-01-27)As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, sub-Saharan African countries faced the dilemma of how to minimize viral transmission without adversely affecting the poor. This study proposes an index of lockdown readiness, taking into ... -
Control, Dispute, and Concentration of Land During Civil War: Evidence from Colombia
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-03-27)How are patterns of armed control and dispute by armed actors related to land concentration, land property rights, and distribution? We argue that armed actors affect land tenure by using different land transfer mechanisms ... -
“There Was Something Inside of Me I Needed to Let Out”: Occupied Masculinities, Emotional Expression and Rap Music in a Palestinian Refugee Camp
(SAGE, 2021-05-28)Although normative constructions of masculinity in Palestine denote emotional suppression as an idealized attribute, extreme subjugation under the grinding realities of a colonial military occupation requires that this ... -
Negotiating Gender Roles and Power Relations Through the Management of International Migrant Remittances in a Patriarchal Community in Ghana
(SAGE, 2023-03-10)This paper draws on a feminist poststructural perspective to examine gendered dimensions of sending and managing international migrant remittances in a patriarchal community in Ghana. It relies on primary data collected ... -
A Whole System Approach to Childhood Obesity: How a Supportive Environment was Created in the City of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
(Springer, 2023-04-19)Childhood obesity is a growing global challenge, and no country has yet reversed the upward trend in prevalence. The causes are multifaceted, spanning individual, societal, environmental, and political spheres. This makes ... -
Quiet Revolution? Women’s Collective Empowerment and BRAC
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-03-15)BRAC’s focus on women and community organisations in the 1970s was lauded as bringing forth “a quiet revolution.” We explore the evolution of BRAC’s selected programs that built community forums and argue that while BRAC ... -
Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of COVID-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda
(SAGE, 2023-03-06)This research investigates how COVID-19 has affected experiences of people with disabilities in low- and middle-income contexts. A qualitative approach was used to collect data as the pandemic progressed from 75 participants ...