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Slow Violence and Environmental Racism: Romani Recyclers in North Macedonia’s Circular Economy

Critical Romani Studies
This article analyses the environmental injustices faced by Romani communities in North Macedonia through case studies of five locations by applying the “slow violence” framework.
Jekatyerina Dunajeva
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Decades in crisis: adapting a social-ecological framework to assess structural elements impacting asthma rates in the South Bronx

Social Medicine, 2022
Disturbingly high rates of asthma-related hospitalizations have been documented in the South Bronx for several decades. The crisis has been typified by structural violence, health inequity, and disproportionate exposure to environmental harms, with the ...
Renan Eduardo Orellana, Ismael Moradeyo, Paul Uzodinma   +2 more
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Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer, Lindsay Lanteri, Rebekah Levine Coley, Samantha Teixeira   +3 more
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The role of Research‐Practice Ambassadors in strengthening socially just and equitable partnership processes

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Research‐Practice Partnerships seek to close the research‐practice gap through developing collaborative, authentic partnerships between researchers and community members. Our team has leveraged Research‐Practice Ambassadors to support socially just and equitable partnership processes in schools.
Danielle R. Hatchimonji, Lauren McNeela, Zumana Noor, Melissa Stoffers, Tia N. Barnes, Kira Branch, Danika Perry, Amanda Parks, Mariam Berthe   +8 more
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Water Grabbing in the Cauca Basin: The Capitalist Exploitation of Water and Dispossession of Afro-Descendant Communities

Water Alternatives, 2012
This article examines water grabbing in the Alto Cauca in Colombia as a form of accumulation through ethnicised and racialised environmental dispossession in the capitalist system.
Irene Vélez Torres
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The Ecopolitical Spirituality of Miya Poetry: Resistance Against Environmental Racism of the Majoritarian State in Assam, India

Religions
Emerging from the Bengali Muslim char-dwellers in the riverine environments of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries, the Miya Poetry movement is a unique environmentalism of the marginalized in contemporary Assam, India.
Bhargabi Das
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Work Disability, Early Retirement, and Loss of a Loved One in the World Trade Center Health Registry Cohort

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Existing research on the economic outcomes of 9/11 remains limited and has primarily focused on early retirement. Little is known about the prevalence of work disability and loss of a loved one and whether they are associated with survey attrition.
Jennifer Brite, Matthew Di Vitto, Janna Metzler   +2 more
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Social inequalities and environmental conflict

Horizontes Antropológicos, 2006
This paper is organized around two points. The first concerns the literature on environmental justice (EJ) studies and its lack of incorporation of social scientific theories and concepts concerning racism.
David N. Pellow
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Patient Perspectives on Psychiatric Polygenic Risk Scores in Reproductive Decision‐Making and Polygenic Embryo Screening

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate individuals' genetic risk for developing multifactorial conditions. Recent genome‐wide association studies have enabled development of psychiatric PRS, which hold potential to streamline diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions.
Lauren A. Ginn, Amanda R. Merner, Page M. Trotter, Kaitlynn P. Craig, Abigail C. Martinez, Ana Lucía Battaglino, Dorit Barlevy, Daphne M. Ayton, Takahiro Soda, Eric A. Storch, Gabriel Lázaro‐Muñoz, Stacey Pereira   +11 more
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Mycelium as metaphor: a case study of a community-based participatory research project with an oil refinery impacted community

Frontiers in Environmental Science
MethodsStandard approaches to research with communities impacted by environmental injustice often prioritizes institutions as experts rather than those with lived experience.
Ramona Beltrán, Stephanie Malin, Kristina Hulama, Olga Gonzalez, Laura Martinez   +4 more
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