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Economías inflamables en tiempos de COVID-19: La reventa de gasolina en la frontera de Venezuela-Brasil. [PDF]

J Lat Am Caribb Anthropol, 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.
Morillo Ramos M, van Roekel E.
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Do tax policies discriminate against female traders? A gender framework to study informal marketplaces in Nigeria. [PDF]

Poverty Public Policy, 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.
Akpan I, Cascant-Sempere MJ.
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Mujeres comerciantes y política

Wani
En los últimos cinco años, Bluefields ha experimentado un rápido crecimiento de la actividad comercial, al grado que pareciera como si de pronto el mercado se hubiera tragado a la ciudad. La actividad comercial, extendida por todos sus rincones, está devorando grandes sectores urbanos, ¡públicos y de habita! doméstico.
Gabriel Torres, Ronnie Vernooy
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Fire risk communication in the urban informal sector: Evidence from traditional marketplaces in Accra, Ghana

Risk, 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, Seth A. Okyere, Louis K. Frimpong, Stephen K. Diko, Michael O. Erdiaw‐Kwasie, Victor Boateng   +5 more
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The dark web trades wildlife, but mostly for use as drugs

People 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, Jacob Maher, Charlotte R. Lassaline, Lisa Wood, Stephanie Moncayo, Adam Toomes, Sarah Heinrich, Freyja Watters, Charlotte Drake, Sebastian Chekunov, Katherine G. W. Hill, David Decary‐Hetu, Lewis Mitchell, Joshua V. Ross, Phillip Cassey   +14 more
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Tim Wu. Comerciantes de atención

Austral Comunicación, 2021
Es reseña del libro: "Comerciantes de atención" de Tim ...
Patricia Vargas Portillo, Vargas Portillo, Patricia   +1 more
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Fisheries in a border area of the Moxos Lowlands (Bolivia) after invasion of Arapaima gigas

Aquaculture, 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, Claudia Coca Méndez, Joachim Carolsfeld, Oriana Almeida, Paul Andre Van Damme   +4 more
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HUMBOLDT IN VENEZUELA AND CUBA: THE ‘SECOND SLAVERY’

German 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
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An Ethnographic Perspective on Urban Planning in Brazil: Temporality, Diversity and Critical Urban Theory

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 185-199, March 2020., 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.
Martijn Koster
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Anglo‐Spanish Enlightenment: Joseph Shepherd, an English ‘ilustrado' in Valladolid

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 43-60, March 2020., 2020
Abstract This article studies Joseph Shepherd and his role in Anglo‐Spanish cultural exchange in the last decades of the eighteenth century, at the dawn of Anglophilia in Spain. Though largely unknown, this Catholic recusant, established in Spain as rector of the Royal English College of St Alban in order to continue the training of English priests ...
Ana Sáez‐Hidalgo
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