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Narratives of Strength: Exploring Storytelling as a Tool for Resilience in Families

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Resilience, originally viewed as a psychological capacity to ‘bounce back’ from challenges, is now understood to be shaped by broader social inequalities, including gender, socio‐economic status, politics and ethnicity. This study explores how stories and narratives can help nurture resilience and improve well‐being among those residing in an ...
Chandra Ramamurthy, Srilatha Juvva, Gregory Armstrong, Karl Andriessen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘But He Is Only a Human, So Why Do They Hate Them? Because of His Job?’: Children's Critical Co‐Inquiries on Caste, Privilege and Positionality

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Caste hierarchies in India place children within a complex system of oppressor‐oppressed relationships that structurally reinforce practices of othering. This paper draws on research with children from privileged caste communities, raising critical consciousness of caste oppression in a primary school classroom in New Delhi, India.
Arushi Mathur
wiley   +1 more source

Taxonomic and functional diversity of urban bees of the world

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Bees play a pivotal role in terrestrial environments. Urbanization can affect these organisms and the ecosystem services they provide. However, knowledge of the global diversity of urban bees is limited. Thus, we summarized data on urban bee species identities and occurrences; compared distributions of all bees with those found in urban ...
João C. F. Cardoso, Pietro K. Maruyama, Ingrid N. Gomes, Lorena B. Valadão‐Mendes, Victor H. D. Silva, Larissa Lorraine, Jordana O. Borges, Rogério V. Gonçalves, Léo C. Rocha‐Filho, Renata Trevizan, Yasmine Antonini   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Which Decolonization? Theorizing Decolonization beyond Decoloniality and its Critics

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on decolonial thought has reached an unhelpful stalemate. A core problem in assessing decolonial thought is that the term ‘decolonization’ has been stretched so widely that it now allows for many competing uses. For some critics of decolonial thought such as Nigerian philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, this overuse points to conceptual ...
David Myer Temin
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of elevation, climate, snowmelt and floral abundance on body size of solitary bees

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
We measured body size in bee species from a 10‐year specimen collection from Colorado sub‐alpine meadows (2450–3450 m) and tested effects of elevation and annual snowmelt, climate and floral abundance. 2 out of 4 bee species collected across a broad elevation range showed a decline in body size with higher elevations; the other two showed no effect ...
Lachlan C. Jones, Melanie R. Kazenel, Kristin Conrad, Jane E. Ogilvie, Ian K. Breckheimer, Rebecca E. Irwin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diverse coping strategies for food insecurity: A qualitative study of economically precarious households in India in the context of COVID-19. [PDF]

PLoS One
Vasudev C, Mishra S, Rathi A, Fledderjohann J, Vellakkal S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The role of structural transformation in regional convergence in Japan: 1874–2008

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Japan's regional convergence of productivity levels throughout the twentieth century can be best described as a cumulative process of ‘catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind’. Using a novel dataset spanning 135 years (1874–2008), this study finds support for a crucial role played by structural transformation in convergence. The pace of
Kyoji Fukao, Saumik Paul
wiley   +1 more source

Cestode infection is linked to transcriptional shifts in neuropeptide signalling and caste-specific ageing pathways in a social insect. [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Blasi G, Schwolow K, Darras H, Foitzik S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Indian deindustrialization revisited: New data, estimates, and interpretations

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The fate of the handloom cotton textile industry is one of the most debated topics in the economic history of India. This paper presents novel employment estimates for cotton textile handweaving and spinning in the period 1800–1940. I put together plausible values for labour productivity and combine these with aggregate input usage to generate
Alexander Nagar
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal caregiving burdens and child well-being in an urban informal settlement: an intersectional study of marginalized caste mothers in Chennai, India. [PDF]

Front Pediatr
Ananthi M, Prabakar S.
europepmc   +1 more source