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An Ethnographic Perspective on Urban Planning in Brazil: Temporality, Diversity and Critical Urban Theory. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Urban Reg Res, 2020
Abstract This article provides an ethnographic perspective on urban planning by presenting the creative practices of marginalized slum residents in Recife, Northeast Brazil, who are affected by planners’ decisions. It argues that such a perspective contributes to current critical urban theory in three ways.
Koster M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Un comerciante riojanoburgalés en el emporio bilbaíno durante la transición del antiguo régimen al liberalismo: Ángel Martínez Vítores (1781-1847)

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Contemporánea, 2023
Analizando el recorrido vital del comerciante Ángel Martínez confirmamos capítulos de la Historia Contemporánea española que, no por estudiados, están suficientemente agotados.
Juan José Martín García   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fire risk communication in the urban informal sector: Evidence from traditional marketplaces in Accra, Ghana

open access: yesRisk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 297-320, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Urban marketplace fires in Ghana are chronic, devasting in economic losses and disproportionately impacting informal sector workers. Yet, the scholarly works on urban disasters have focused on hydrometeorological and other man‐made disasters to the neglect of marketplace fires, particularly the challenges in risk communication between ...
Matthew Abunyewah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

El capital social como producto de los procesos de comunicación interpersonal en las actividades cotidianas y asambleas realizadas entre los comerciantes de un mercado móvil de la alcaldía Venustiano Carranza de la Ciudad de México en el mes de abril de 2

open access: yesSintaxis, 2020
El capital social se presenta en las relaciones sociales, las cuales, se apoyan en la comunicación interpersonal. La presente investigación se propone averiguar cómo la categoría de comunicación interpersonal entre los comerciantes de un tianguis ayuda a
Guillermo García Mayo
doaj   +1 more source

The dark web trades wildlife, but mostly for use as drugs

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 3, Page 999-1009, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Contemporary wildlife trade is massively facilitated by the Internet. By design, the dark web is one layer of the Internet that is difficult to monitor and continues to lack thorough investigation. Here, we accessed a comprehensive database of dark web marketplaces to search across c. 2 million dark web advertisements over 5 years using c. 7 k
Oliver C. Stringham   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fisheries in a border area of the Moxos Lowlands (Bolivia) after invasion of Arapaima gigas

open access: yesAquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 3, Issue 2, Page 196-210, April 2023., 2023
We characterized fisheries in the area of the port city of Riberalta (upper Madeira River basin) and evaluated the contribution of an invasive species (Arapaima gigas) to the landings. A. gigas represented 57.6% of the overall economic value of fish in the region.
Gabriela Rico Lopez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do tax policies discriminate against female traders? A gender framework to study informal marketplaces in Nigeria

open access: yesPoverty &Public Policy, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 287-306, September 2022., 2022
Abstract Scholars have long debated formalizing the informal sector through taxation, but how do these processes affect gender inequalities? Our study in Nigerian markets contributes a gender framework to the equitable taxation literature on formalization.
Imaobong Akpan   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economías inflamables en tiempos de COVID‐19: La reventa de gasolina en la frontera de Venezuela–Brasil

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 37-56, June 2022., 2022
Resumen La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis.
Morelia Morillo Ramos, Eva van Roekel
wiley   +1 more source

HUMBOLDT IN VENEZUELA AND CUBA: THE ‘SECOND SLAVERY’

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 311-325, July 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT The reception of Humboldt's work now spans more than 200 years. It began with the publication of the texts that form his Opus Americanum (1808–31). Among these works, it was in the Political Essay on Cuba, where a chapter was devoted to the demography of the slave trade from Africa to Cuba, that became a cornerstone of the global historical ...
Michael Zeuske
wiley   +1 more source

Visiones encontradas en la celebración de la independencia mexicana a finales del siglo XIX

open access: yesRevista de Indias, 2003
Este artículo analiza las visiones encontradas que algunos sectores populares en la Ciudad de México, así como una parte de la colonia española, tuvieron en el marco de la celebración anual de la independencia durante la última década del siglo XIX ...
Aimer Granados García
doaj   +1 more source

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