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Moving up the income ladder? What are the obstacles: a case study of indigenous people in Latin America [PDF]

Latin America is traditionally the region with the highest income and wealth inequality and the indigenous people are the most socially excluded group of the society. The obstacles they face on their way to becoming middle class are numerous.
Ivan Grguric
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Epidemiological scenarios for human rabies exposure notified in Colombia during ten years: A challenge to implement surveillance actions with a differential approach on vulnerable populations.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Based on notified cases of human rabies exposure and human deaths by rabies to Colombia public health surveillance system between 2007 and 2016, we conducted a spatiotemporal analysis to identify epidemiological scenarios of high human rabies exposure ...
Marcela Rocío Arias Caicedo, Diego de Arruda Xavier, Catalina Alejandra Arias Caicedo, Etiene Andrade, Isis Abel   +4 more
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Pluriversity as a pedagogical alternative on the example of the educational movement of the indigenous people of the Andean part of Cauca region in Colombia

Studia z Teorii Wychowania
The paper reveals how Misak Universidad and the Universidad Autónoma Indígena Intercultural in the Cauca region of Colombia embody the concept of pluriversity and assiociated with it emancipatory, critical, popular and indigenious pedagogies. To reveal this issue, an interpretive paradigm was employed—literature analysis combined with analysis of ...
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Pathways for Contesting Gender Norms in Rural Development: A Case Study in Colombia

Rural Sociology, Volume 91, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The Fifth Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality remains distant in rural areas of low‐and middle‐income countries, where restrictive gender norms persist. While empowerment is promoted as a means of transforming these norms, little is known about how such transformations unfold or about the unintended negative consequences they may ...
Maria Alejandra García, Maria Claudia Lopez, Lucero Radonic   +2 more
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Review of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among Indigenous Australians [PDF]

, 2013
This review is intended to provide an authoritative, up-to-date account of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among Indigenous people.PrefaceThis review of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among Indigenous Australians ...
Caitlin Gray, Neil Thomson
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On protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures to conserve biodiversity. Exploring their contribution to Colombian snakes

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
Other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) have recently been implemented in countries such as Colombia and, together with protected areas (PA), are crucial biodiversity conservation strategies.
Karina Gisell Rey Pulido, Santiago José Elías Velazco   +1 more
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Between Borderisation and Multi/Transterritoriality: Dilemmas of Decolonising Territory in Abya Yala/Afro/Latin America

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This article addresses the issue of territory in Abya Yala/Afro/Latin America from a decolonial perspective and through the links and contradictions between the processes we call borderisation and multi or trans‐territorialisation, emphasising, in this case, the multiplicity of territory as an instrument of struggle and re‐existence, where ...
Rogério Haesbaert
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The Geographies of Latin American Social Movements Are More Than Just Territories in Resistance

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This article analyses social activism in Latin America in the light of its recent transformations, with an emphasis on the interactions between movements and political institutions. Based on a critical review of geographical literature, the authors argue that although the concept of territory remains relevant, it is not enough to understand ...
Juliana Nunes Rodrigues, Guilherme Felix Machado‐Filho   +1 more
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Report on government services 2014: Indigenous compendium [PDF]

, 2014
The performance of mainstream services provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians is a particular focus of the annual Report on Government Services.

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Climate Fiction and the Limits of Representation: Scale, Agency and Futurity

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This special issue examines the limits of representation in climate fiction. Rather than treating such limits as mere narrative failures to be overcome, the essays understand them in two related ways. They concern both the difficulties of rendering climate change apprehensible and intelligible and the limits of representation as the principal ...
Caleb Ferrari, Lenka Filipova
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