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From Occupational Stigma to Mukti: Liberation, Place, and Agency Among Sex Workers in Sonagachi

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how former sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata, India, navigate occupational and place‐based stigma through spiritual repertoires, of which mukti (liberation) is a central tool. Drawing on critical, embedded ethnography across three fieldwork periods (2001, 2011, and 2019) with long‐term engagement in the Freeset community,
Edwina Pio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determination of Oxygen in Cast Iron

open access: yesDetermination of Oxygen in Cast Iron
application/pdf Recently, the determination of oxygen in cast iron has been required and it is important to determine not only the total amount of oxygen but also the oxygen in each oxide. The non-metallic inclusion method is usually used for determing each oxide in cast iron, which, however, is tedious and not reliable.
openaire   +1 more source

Caste and democratic politics in India

open access: yes, 2004
The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social system. But this has not happened over the fifty-odd years since Indian independence, and shows little sign of happening in the near future.
Assadi, M.
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Floral resource availability and surrounding land cover influence bumble bee community composition in an agricultural landscape

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Multispecies occupancy models indicated that the occurrence of bumble bees was associated with local floral resources as well as the landscape surrounding a site within 1.6 km. Estimated species richness was greater at sites with more forest cover and lower at sites with more corn and soybean agriculture in the surrounding landscape.
Kelsey N. Shepherd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Hidden Burden in Antenatal Care: Determining the Level of Obstetric Violence and Its Associated Factors Among Pregnant Women

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To determine the level of obstetric violence among pregnant women and identify associated sociodemographic and obstetric factors in Türkiye. Design A descriptive cross‐sectional study. Methods The study was conducted with 505 pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Training and Research Hospitals in the Black Sea region of Türkiye ...
Kıymet Yeşilçiçek Çalık   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source

Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
wiley   +1 more source

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