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The meanings of domesticity

open access: yes, 2012
The house is more than a place: the 'domus' is the principle of an order and a device for articulating differences and meanings one lives by. In many cultures domesticity - centrality, stability, continuity - is identified with woman.
Verschaffel, Bart
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India–United States Agricultural Trade Under the America‐First Agenda

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines India–United States agricultural trade under the America‐First agenda, highlighting trade patterns, tariff structures, and potential impacts of United States trade policies. Total agricultural trade remains modest at $7 billion annually, with India imposing higher tariffs (average 39%) than the United States (5%).
Badri N. Gopalakrishnan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Kitchen as a Social-Spatial Barometer: Deconstructing the Domestic Realm From a Gender Perspective

open access: yesInteriority
Emergent domesticities have generated new forms of urban life that have dissolved the historical duality between the home and the city. Last century's gender revolution in Western societies, together with contemporary technologies, has affected how ...
Serafina Amoroso, Atxu Amann Alcocer
doaj   +1 more source

Vietnam's Socialist Servants. Domesticity, Class, Gender and Identity

open access: yes, 2017
Nguyen M. Vietnam's Socialist Servants. Domesticity, Class, Gender and Identity. Asia's transformations. Vol 44 1st ed. London; New York: Routledge, Paperback Edition; 2017.https://www.routledge.com/Vietnams-Socialist-Servants-Domesticity-Class-Gender ...
Nguyen, Minh ; https://orcid.org/
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Constructions of Domesticity

open access: yes, 2016
The chapter argues that discourses of domesticity were connected to modernizing ideals, resistance to social change, and conflicts over gender and family roles, and these meanings often existed simultaneously and even within the same text or cultural ...
Lee Skinner
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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

The "disorderly Memsahib" : political domesticity in Alice Perrin's empire fiction

open access: yes, 2013
Examining the fiction of Alice Perrin, this essay proposes that home and domesticity in English colonial writings on India constitute a "political domesticity" where ideologies of race and empire were played out and reinforced.
Nayar, Pramod K.
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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