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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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Pastoral Livelihood Adaptation to Drought and Institutional Interventions in Kenya [PDF]
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Victor A. Orindi, Anthony Nyong and Mario Herrero
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Pachyderm, 2018 Conflict between humans and elephants is a notoriously complex problem requiring a detailed understanding of the underlying patterns and processes in order to develop effective solutions.
Ryan Wilkie, Iain Douglas-Hamilton
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Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa: Impacts, Experiences and Future Directions [PDF]
, 2009 More than twenty years have passed since community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) rose to prominence in different parts of Africa as a strategy for rural development, local empowerment, and conservation.
Chris Sandbrook, Dilys Roe, Fred Nelson
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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Elephant crop damage in the Red Volta Valley, north-eastern Ghana
Pachyderm, 2005 Crop raiding behaviour of elephants that seasonally migrate into the Red Volta Valley was monitored as part of a project assessing conflict mitigation. Betrween 1999-2003 farmers in the project area were organized into associations.
Patrick Adjewodah +3 more
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Perceptions of Risk within Pastoralist Households in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia [PDF]
Perceptions of risk may vary within households as well as across households and communities. In this paper, we take advantage of panel survey data collected quarterly over a period of 2 ½ years to see how perceptions of risk vary across individuals over ...
Barrett, Christopher B. +2 more
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Could guns and rain spell the end for the Karamojong? [PDF]
, 2010 Over one million people live in Karamoja, a region found in the north Eastern part of Uganda. To a visitor passing through from the capital city Kampala, Karamoja may look like any other region in Uganda but appearances can be deceptive.
Ferloni, Mark +3 more
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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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