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“I am going to break this logic of fear!”: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 141-150, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant ...
Luminiţa‐Anda Mandache
wiley   +1 more source

Earnings inequality and dynamics in the presence of informality: The case of Brazil

open access: yesQuantitative Economics, Volume 13, Issue 4, Page 1405-1446, November 2022., 2022
Using rich administrative and household survey data spanning 34 years from 1985 to 2018, we document a series of new facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing country with a large informal sector: Brazil. Since the mid‐1990s, both inequality and volatility of earnings have declined significantly in Brazil's formal sector.
Niklas Engbom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eating pizza in prison

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 221-233, May 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Police work is obviously a question of pursuing subjects. In postslave societies, one figure dominates; police are always after the young Black man. Meanwhile, another distinctive subject of policing exists. In São Paulo, Brazil, police detectives are also worried about the failing White father.
GRAHAM DENYER WILLIS
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence and temporal trends in prepregnancy nutritional status and gestational weight gain of adult women followed in the Brazilian Food and Nutrition Surveillance System from 2008 to 2018

open access: yesMaternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2022., 2022
Abstract Prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) are the most investigated indicators of maternal nutritional status, which is a modifiable factor that plays a vital role in maternal and infant health. This study describes prepregnancy BMI and GWG of 840,243 women with 2,087,765 weight observations in the Brazilian Food and
Thaís Rangel Bousquet Carrilho   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Removing the bad apples: A simple bioinformatic method to improve loci‐recovery in de novo RADseq data for non‐model organisms

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 5, Page 805-817, May 2021., 2021
Abstract The restriction site‐associated DNA (RADseq) family of protocols involves digesting DNA and sequencing the region flanking the cut site, thus providing a cost and time‐efficient way for obtaining thousands of genomic markers. However, when working with non‐model taxa with few genomic resources, optimization of RADseq wet‐lab and bioinformatic ...
José Cerca   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between different social expenditure schemes and poverty, inequality and economic growth

open access: yesInternational Social Security Review, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 101-123, April/June 2020., 2020
Abstract In this article, we study how social expenditure is related to poverty, income inequality and GDP growth. Our main contribution is to disentangle these relationships by the following social expenditure schemes: 1) “old age and survivors”, 2) “incapacity”, 3) “health”, 4) “family”, 5) “unemployment and active labour market policies” and 6 ...
Emile Cammeraat
wiley   +1 more source

Health care service for families with children at early risk of developmental delay: an All Our Families cohort study

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 338-345, March 2020., 2020
Aim This study examined children’s health care service use, mothers’ workforce participation, and mothers’ community engagement based on children’s risk of developmental delay. Method We used data from the All Our Families study, a prospective pregnancy cohort.
Matthew J Russell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Justiça racial e direitos humanos dos povos e comunidades tradicionais

open access: yesRevista Katálysis, 2020
O objetivo desse artigo é contextualizar o cenário atual de crescimento do autoritarismo, de ataques aos direitos humanos e a democracia, tendo como eixo analítico e político a categoria raça.
Daiane de oliveira Gomes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

O equilíbrio trabalho/família: revisão de literatura

open access: yesGestão e Desenvolvimento, 2014
O equilíbrio entre a vida profissional e familiar é um dos grandes desafios dos países em desenvolvimento e uma das temáticas com maior destaque na União Europeia.
Susana Pereira, Célia Ribeiro
doaj   +1 more source

Organizational culture, internal marketing, and perceived organizational support in portuguese higher education institutions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Changes imposed on public higher education institutions try to adopt some management practices in public organizations. In this study, we intend to understand how organizational culture (support, innovation, goals, rules) and internal marketing can ...
Agasisti   +71 more
core   +3 more sources

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