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Water, pipes and the cholera pathogen: The colonial politics of germs and water infrastructures in the Philippines

open access: yesSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.
This paper examines how the politics of water governance intersected with germ suppression during US colonial rule in the Philippines. Drawing on historical materials and policy documents, we critically trace two interrelated processes of hydroterritorialization through which cholera outbreaks in the early 1900s spurred the production of sanitary ...
Rhomir S. Yanquiling   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Periods, Pains, Pills, and Performance—Fighting Blood, Bodies and Biology

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on various data from long‐term immersion in combat sports to explore the period experiences of cis women fighters. We blend theoretical ideas from the social scientific literature on menstruation and the sociology of medicalization, pain and injury.
Reem AlHashmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial Sorting of Well‐being in Sweden: The Role of Attitudes Towards the Neighbourhood and Neighbourhood Type

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, spatial sorting of well‐being at the neighbourhood level has received attention. As most studies merely focus on the distribution itself or one neighbourhood aspect in relation to well‐being, this study examined well‐being by neighbourhood type, and how residents’ attitudes to the neighbourhood might influence this relationship.
Gijs Westra, Karen Haandrikman
wiley   +1 more source

Stated neighbourhood preferences: Examining the impact of individual background and neighbourhood characteristics

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Survey data show that people generally prefer mixed neighbourhoods when given free choice. Neighbourhood preferences reflect preferences for homophily, but also mirror individual background and associations with current neighbourhoods. Being foreign‐born is associated with elevated ethnic preferences, especially when living in the most diverse or urban
Karen Haandrikman, Eva K. Andersson
wiley   +1 more source

A Spatial Clustering Approach of Economic Activities: An Application to the Agribusiness Sector in Brazil's Midwest Region

open access: yesGeographical Analysis, Volume 58, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT The spatial distribution of economic activities is central to regional economics. However, empirical tools for comparing industries based on the similarity of their spatial distributions remain limited. Traditional cluster analysis typically ignores geographical distance and connectivity, while spatial methods focus on clustering places rather
Gilvan Santos do Rosario Junior   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Professional Segmentation as a Barrier to Reform in Turkish Nursing

open access: yesNursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that segmentation within Turkish nursing is a major factor holding back the modernisation of nurse management. Since the millennium Türkiye's healthcare system has been transformed by NPM‐style reforms that changed financing mechanisms and strengthened aspects of performance management, but had only limited impact on nursing ...
Zuleyha Inceoz, David Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Open letter: The need for a site‐based biodiversity standard measuring and certifying impacts from nature‐based projects

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1394-1402, September 2026.
Despite growing investment in restoration, weak accountability and poor biodiversity monitoring mean many projects fail to achieve ecological recovery. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) offers a practical way to ensure that restoration finance delivers measurable gains for nature.
David Bartholomew   +254 more
wiley   +1 more source

High Awareness, Poor Practice: The Cholera Prevention Knowledge‐Attitude‐Practice Gap in Ada Foah, Ghana—A Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesPublic Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Cholera persists as a public health threat in Ghana, particularly in coastal communities with inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure. This study assessed the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) toward cholera among residents of Ada Foah, a high‐risk coastal district in Ghana, to identify gaps and inform ...
Christopher Yaw Dumevi   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guild‐Specific Frog Responses to Natural Habitat Structure Gradients in an Atlantic Forest Mosaic

open access: yesEcological Research, Volume 41, Issue 5, September 2026.
This study investigated how habitat structure gradients are associated with frog species richness and occupancy in a naturally heterogeneous Atlantic Forest mosaic. We found that frog richness and occupancy patterns varied among ecological guilds and were highest in sites associated with lower values of the habitat structure gradient, which also ...
Juliane Pereira‐Ribeiro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

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