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La reproducción de la informalidad en el contexto urbano: el caso de la comuna 20 en Cali, Colombia
Territorios en Formación, 2018 Resumen La informalidad ha sido una característica permanente en el desarrollo urbano de la comuna 20 de Cali, desde el siglo pasado hasta la actualidad los asentamientos de desarrollo incompleto han ido evolucionando y vinculándose con la ciudad ...
Paula Contreras Paredes
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History, EarlyView.Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Clinical &Experimental Allergy, EarlyView.Global Asthma Network Phase I surveyed children, adolescents, and adults worldwide to assess the prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema. Human Development Index (HDI) and Gini inequality index (GinI) were important explanatory factors for prevalence variability of these conditions, with hotspots in areas with high HDI and high GinI ...
Luis García‐Marcos +15 more
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Vocabulary Strategy Instruction in the Argentine EFL Context: Teachers’ Perspectives and Practices
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on vocabulary strategy instruction (VSI), little has been known about teachers’ perspectives on how it is understood and implemented in practice. This study investigated Argentinian EFL teachers’ priorities in vocabulary instruction, their perceived knowledge of learner strategies for spoken vocabulary, and factors ...
Isobel Kai‐Hui Wang, Andrew D. Cohen
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Home sweet harm: Confinement and tranquilidad in post‐asylum Peru
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how Peru's Community Mental Health (CMH) model contributes to the exclusion and home confinement of mentally ill individuals. Based on the experience of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia and her mother, I show how CMH's emphasis on community‐based care often fails in practice, as neighbors respond to people with mental
Julio Villa‐Palomino
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article theorizes about weak checks and balances (C&B) and its plausible consequences. Drawing on empirical data from over 1100 municipal officials in Mexico, the study examines how executive dominance over three key institutions—the local council, internal comptroller offices, and human resources offices—facilitates consequences ...
Oliver Meza +2 more
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El Informe Mundial de Ciudades 2008
Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos, 2008 En junio del 2006 fue presentado por Naciones Unidas en Vancouver, Canadá, el tercer informe mundial de ciudades, o más precisamente “El estado de las ciudades en el mundo 2006-2007”. Como es bien conocido, a esta reunión de carácter internacional asisten representantes de los diferentes gobiernos del mundo, del sector académico y del sector no ...
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the commemorative practices of two feminist collectives engaging in anti‐feminicide collages in the cities of Paris and Montreuil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, it examines how these activist interventions, as temporary urban memorials, intersect memory‐work and care‐work in urban space ...
Morgane Rudaz
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Political Animals: To Live & Die in More‐Than‐Human Worlds
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 660-667, September 2026.ABSTRACT What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations.
Luísa Reis‐Castro
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Fluid Toxicities: Violent Affective Ecologies in Cartagena, Colombia
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT Water is at the centre of climate change emergency concerns in coastal cities. It constitutes here a fluid entry point to investigating the socio‐ecological politics of toxicities for residents dwelling with and against contaminated waters in Cartagena, Colombia's urban extensions.
Laura Neville, Silke Oldenburg
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