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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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Foreclosures in New York: What's Really Going On [PDF]
Four years into the mortgage meltdown, the home foreclosure crisis in New York State continues unabated, particularly in low income neighborhoods and communities of color.
Alexis Iwanisziw, Sarah Ludwig
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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This work aims to shed new light on the relation between institutional performance and firm dynamics. Considering the Italian manufacturing industry and a panel of 3 years, the authors investigate the relation between the time needed by courts to enforce
Greta Falavigna, Roberto Ippoliti
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Risky Business: An Econometric Analysis of the Relationship Between Subprime Lending and Neighborhood Foreclosures [PDF]
Illustrates the quantitative relationship between the level of subprime lending in a neighborhood and foreclosure levels in a subsequent period, while controlling for changes in economic and demographic characteristics that might also effect foreclosure ...
Dan Immergluck, Geoff Smith
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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
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Identity formation constitutes a core developmental task during adolescence and emerging adulthood. However, it remains unclear how identity formation may vary across age, gender, and context (education vs. employment) in these developmental periods. The
Margaux Verschueren +4 more
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Forecasting Count Data With Varying Dispersion: A Latent‐Variable Approach
ABSTRACT Count data, such as product sales and disease case counts, are common in business forecasting and many areas of science. Although the Poisson distribution is the best known model for such data, its use is severely limited by its assumption that the dispersion is a fixed function of the mean, which rarely holds in real‐world scenarios.
Easton Huch +3 more
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Florida Renter's Guide to Foreclosure
FCS3306, a 2-page fact sheet by Michael S. Gutter and Brent Litchfield, describes for renters the protections provided in the federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009, and how to interact with the previous landlord so as to minimize the ...
Michael S. Gutter, Brent Litchfield
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As climate disasters intensify, their financial shockwaves increasingly threaten residential stability and the resilience of the U.S. mortgage market.
Juan Sebastián Herrera +3 more
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