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‘Human rights cities’ in Africa? Rights as resources for urban governance in the Global South
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 538-557, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article considers the use of human rights law as a resource for urban governance by African cities, thereby supplementing the growing literature on ‘human rights cities’ that has thus far focused on the experiences of cities in the Global North.
MARIUS PIETERSE
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Poverty &Public Policy, Volume 15, Issue 3, Page 290-307, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Aging as a woman within the context of agricultural transformation where production and consumption values shape everyday life raises concerns of later life precarity. Gender economic inclusion is imperative in the achievement of inclusive rural development.
Teddy Nagaddya
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND DISSENT FOR POSTCOLONIAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 645-664, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Environmental justice principles are widespread at national and global levels of transition discourse, but this is sometimes irrelevant to marginalized communities. To address this issue, we apply environmental justice theory to a participatory postcolonial urban case study where poverty, unemployment and inequality continue to incentivize ...
Matt Johnston, Dan Darkey, Hilde Ibsen
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Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences
Development Policy Review, Volume 41, Issue S1, March 2023., 2023 Summary Motivation Attempting to increase authorities' accountability for their actions has become a mainstay of development practice in recent decades. Yet commentators suggest that these efforts have reached an impasse, in part because of conceptual fuzziness regarding the core ideas of public accountability. Purpose This article explores what we can
Colin Anderson
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Journal of Clinical Nursing, Volume 32, Issue 5-6, Page 736-748, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Aims and objectives The objectives of this study were to assess the benefits of a caregiver training programme on the cognitive and functional status of older adults, and to compare the effects of this programme according to type of caregiver (professional vs. family caregiver).
Miriam Sanjuán +2 more
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Role of sarcopenia in the frailty transitions in older adults: a population‐based cohort study
Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, Volume 13, Issue 5, Page 2352-2360, October 2022., 2022 Abstract Background Frailty and sarcopenia are age‐associated syndromes that have been associated with the risk of several adverse events, mainly functional decline and death, that usually coexist. However, the potential role of one of them (sarcopenia) in modulating some of those adverse events associated to the other one (frailty) has not been ...
Alejandro Álvarez‐Bustos +6 more
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History, Volume 107, Issue 377, Page 765-788, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This article explores how during Spain's transition to democracy in the 1970s and 1980s, Francoist disabled veterans of the Spanish Civil War navigated the disappearance of formerly hegemonic historical narratives which had hitherto defined their relationship with the state.
Stephanie Wright
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Cultural auditing to enhance reflective counseling practices with Indigenous families
Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 151-161, July 2022., 2022 Abstract Contemporary researchers in counseling consider cultural sensitivity and respectfulness as vital to developing a therapeutic working alliance. The author explores using a cultural audit to reflexively support cultural reflection, sensitivity, and respectfulness.
Wanda Boyer
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Economic Anthropology, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 137-148, January 2022., 2022 During the South African lockdown, food relief was largely delivered by civil society, after the government failed to honor its pledge to provide for the population. By taking a local food parcel initiative in a small rural township as an ethnographic case study, this article examines why the attempt to mimic government food distribution generated ...
Magnus Godvik Ekeland
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Civic‐Led Banishment in South Africa: Punishment, Authority, and Spatialised Precarity
Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 174-196, January 2022., 2022 Abstract Civic‐led banishment, a fundamentally spatial punishment, is an understudied phenomenon in South Africa and beyond. We define it as “a punitive spatial practice, enacted by non‐state actors in response to alleged criminality or deviance, which attempts varying degrees of socio‐spatial expulsion over time”.
S.J. Cooper‐Knock, Gail Super
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