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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Psychology in Education and Health - Proceedings of the III Leipzig-Evora Scientific Meeting in Psychology [PDF]

, 2018
The ebook contains several papers on the application of Psychology in the fields of education, Public health, Psychological disorders, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation child development, and social issues.
Candeias, Adelinda, Costa, Nuno, Galindo, Edgar, Grácio, Luísa, Melo, Madalena, Pires, Heldemerina, Portelada, António, Reschke, Konrad, Vaz Velho, Catarina, Witruk, Evelin   +9 more
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Management preferences for hip fracture care in Latin America

OTA International
Purpose:. Despite an increase in hip fractures in Latin America, few studies have assessed management of these injuries in this region, impeding efforts to understand current treatment patterns, highlight knowledge deficits, or develop best practice ...
Patricia Rodarte, BS, Verena Oberlohr, BS, Theodore Miclau, III, MD, Marcelo Rio, MD, Jose E. Quintero, MD, Dino Aguilar, MD, Michael Flores, MD, David Escalante, MD, Igor A. Escalante Elguezabal, MD, Vincenzo Giordano, MD, PhD, Luis Padilla, MD, Ivan Salce, MD, Julio Segovia Altieri, MD, José A. Xicará, MD, Mario Garuz, MD, Mauricio Eugenin Hernandez, MD, Horacio Tabares Neyra, MD, PhD, Edwin Martinez Dominguez, MD, Napoleon Avendaño, MD, Jose R. Silverio, MD, Madeline C. MacKechnie, PhD, MA, ACTUAR Hip Fracture Study Group (Corporate Authors)   +21 more
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Introduction: Finding common ground beyond fragmentation [PDF]

, 2011
This chapter begins with an outline of the European context within which the twenty six research papers presented in this book emerged. A particularly important aspect of this context is Network 27 on Didactics, Learning and Teaching of the European ...
Hudson, Brian, Meyer, Meinert A
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Constructing Institutional Measures: Indicators of Political and Property Rights in Mozambique, 1900-2005 [PDF]

In this paper we focus on the role of political and economic institutions in Mozambique’s development. We produce a set of institutional indicators for Mozambique for the period 1900 through to 2005.
Guilherme Oliveira, John Manuel Luiz, Luis Brites Pereira   +2 more
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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BIRTH OF A NATION: POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT IN TIMOR-LESTE [PDF]

Timor-Leste is among the world’s poorest countries and poverty reduction is high on the country’s policy agenda. The National Development Plan emphasizes a poverty reduction strategy based on economic growth and a focus on improvements in the health and ...
Lundahl, Mats, Sjöholm, Fredrik
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